CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Hovhannisyan, Siran |
|---|---|
| Title | Gender as Danger: Discourses Around the Notion of Gender in 'Iravunk' Newspaper in Armenia |
| Summary | The adoption of the law on Gender Equality in Armenia in May 2013 resulted in a massive backlash that soon transformed into one of the anti-gender mobilization/movements widely spread in European and neighboring countries. One of the reasons of a nationalist hysteria and panic around gender in Armenia was the definition of the notion of gender in the law. The efforts of the anti-gender mobilization/movement in Armenia for them successfully resulted in the change of the title of the law to “Law on Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities of Women and Men in Armenia”. From all these processes mass media was not, of course, excluded, and some of them were widely contributing to the anti-gender panic to spread among the society. This research analyzes the anti-gender perspectives of understanding the notion of gender. It is aimed at focusing on an Armenian newspaper, Iravunk that is widely known as anti-gender and anti-feminist newspaper in Armenia. In this research I tackle the meanings and variations of the notion of gender in relation to the law on Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities of Women and Men in Armenia. By approaching the research through both content and discourse analyses methods I show that in Iravunk newspaper the notion of gender is presented as a danger and with predominantly negative connotations. With an analysis of different variations of the use of the notion, in my analysis I also show that the “gender vocabulary” (gender and human rights related expressions and terms) are co-opted by the anti-gender mobilization/movement and flipped into negative light. At the end of my analysis I show how the main characters of the anti-gender movement in Armenia establish formalized alliances and develop mechanisms to fight “gender danger” in the Armenian society in both legal and ideological directions. |
| Supervisor | Fodor, Éva |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/hovhannisyan_siran.pdf |
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