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Cristian Norocel

Ov Cristian Norocel

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Cristian Norocel

Antifeminist and “truly liberated” : Conservative performances of gender by women politicians in Hungary and Romania

Författare

  • Ov Cristian Norocel

Summary, in English

This article employs a two-level analysis to compare the discursive performance of gender on social media in Hungary and Romania; the two countries with the lowest percentage of women in politics in the European Union (EU). First, by revealing the tension between conservative views about gender roles, and social and political specificities in the two countries, the research illustrates how various parties on the conservative right ideological continuum-from the center-right to right-wing populism-relate to the feminist project. Secondly, it analyzes how selected women politicians within this continuum negotiate their ideological beliefs about gender roles with their political career interests, by means of social media (Facebook). The analytical constructs of idealized motherhood and feminine toughness are employed to examine a period of intensive political campaigning in 2014 in both Hungary and Romania. The study triangulates the multi-layered discursive circumstances (the historical, contextual, and social media contexts) in Hungary and Romania, and maps out the similarities and differences that are disclosed when comparing the selected women politicians. The article makes a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to scholarship on gender and conservatism in particular and raises questions for the wider study of gender, politics, and social media in general.

Publiceringsår

2018-01-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

43-54

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Politics and Governance

Volym

6

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cogitatio Press

Ämne

  • Gender Studies
  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • Communication Studies

Nyckelord

  • Conservatism
  • Eastern Europe
  • Facebook
  • Feminism
  • Gender
  • Ideological continuum
  • Politics
  • Right-wing populism
  • Social media
  • Women

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2183-2463