Eesti Ekspressi persoonirubriigi Tegijad sooline representatsioon 2006. aastal

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2007

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Tartu Ülikool

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The aim of this Bachelors thesis (Representation of Gender in the column Tegijad in the weekly Eesti Ekspress) is to analyze the construction of gender in the column Tegijad in the weekly Eesti Ekspress. The main criteria for analyzing were the elements and judgments given to the persons. The aim was to find out how many of the stories were written about females; who are chosen to be portrayed, how are the persons being characterized and what kind of discourses can be found in the texts. The texts of the column Tegijad in the year 2006 were analyzed. A general analysis was done on all the texts and a more thorough on all the texts written of women (9) and on the same amount of randomly chosen articles about men. Texts were analyzed by content and discourse analysis. Two systems of categories were compiled for the content analysis. The study showed that the construction of gender in the Tegijad column stories pursues the following tendencies. Men are portrayed more often than women. And women are usually portrayed in their personal or home environment. Men were portrayed as successful and in their working environment. Interesting is that the themes of reasons for writing about a female person were often negative. In discourse analysis the three stages of the Fairclough method were followed. The study showed that men and women are still portrayed through discourses that are maintaining the old stereotypes. Women are seen as mothers and are not so smart. Men on the other hand are seen as intelligent and important, with great values. Still in the texts about women there were two so to say new discourses – the „warriors” and the „self-willed woman’s”.

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H Social Sciences (General)

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