CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Gotthardová, Kristína |
|---|---|
| Title | Transgressing Women: Is There Space for Women in the Slovak Public Sphere? |
| Summary | This master thesis analyzes the experiences of female politicians and journalists with online gender-based violence against the backdrop of current political situation in Slovakia. This research builds upon the existing scholarship in the area of violence against women in politics, but offers a new angle by focusing on political and ideological dimension where certain actors target women from the opposition in gendered attacks. Applying feminist critical discourse analysis and analytical framework of gendered forms, motives, and impacts on data gathered from elite interviews, this research demonstrated the existence of coordinated mechanisms of online attacks on women in opposition with gendered impacts of self-censorship on women on social media or public sphere participation in general. This thesis further draws attention to the need for more outspoken communal acknowledgment of online violence against women as well as the strengths and weaknesses of existing protection mechanisms and the directions for future policy-making in the area of online safety and online violence against women. |
| Supervisor | Cameran Ashraf |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/gotthardova_kristina.pdf |
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