Thursday, December 18th, 2008
«To the Women Who Raised Me». A Feminist Discourse Reading of Barack Obama
The approach taken in this paper is an attempt to fuse critical discourse analytical tools with feminist theory. In line with the feminist project of de-naturalizing gender relations and underscoring how gender is embedded and constructed in social practice, I showed how discourse is a defining agent in constituting power relations.
With reference to Fairclough (1993; […]