Angela Rayner (Member of Parliament) and the “Basic Instinct Ploy”: Intersectional misrecognition of women leaders' legitimacy, productive resistance and flexing (patriarchal) discourse

IF 3.9 1区 社会学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Valerie Stead, Sharon Mavin, Carole Elliott
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This paper interrogates a shift in patriarchal media discourse related to women leaders' recognition and legitimation in the UK. We conduct a multimodal discourse analysis of an online newspaper article about the UK politician and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Angela Rayner, and analyzed public responses. Understanding the media as a means to distribute power and enable the challenging of norms, we contribute a theory of intersectional misrecognition in media's representation of women political leaders. This reveals an enduring and dynamic subordinate status of women leaders, shown specifically through the intersection of gender and class. We theorize that while women leaders continue to be misrecognized in the media, destabilizing their legitimacy, there is a demonstrable flexing of patriarchal discourse combined with stronger and accelerated resistance to ongoing sexism. We identify this resistance as productive in its call for consequences and a redistribution of cultural values, reflecting a discursive shift toward a productive resistance of resilient gender norms, evident in the intersection of gender with class. Intersectional misrecognition has value in making inequalities explicit for women leaders and where there may be productive tensions with potential to mobilize for change.

安吉拉-雷纳(国会议员)与 "基本本能伎俩":对女性领导者合法性的交叉误认、生产性抵抗和(父权制)话语的屈伸
本文探讨了英国父权制媒体话语中与女性领导人的认可和合法化有关的转变。我们对一篇关于英国政治家、工党副领袖安吉拉-雷纳(Angela Rayner)的网络报纸文章进行了多模态话语分析,并分析了公众的反应。我们认为媒体是分配权力和挑战规范的一种手段,因此我们提出了媒体在表现女性政治领袖时存在交叉误认的理论。这揭示了女性领导人持久而动态的从属地位,具体表现为性别与阶级的交叉。我们的理论认为,虽然女性领导人继续在媒体中受到误认,从而破坏了她们的合法性,但父权制话语明显得到了削弱,同时对持续存在的性别歧视的抵制也在不断加强和加速。我们认为这种抵制是有成效的,因为它要求承担后果并重新分配文化价值观,这反映了一种话语转变,即对有弹性的性别规范进行有成效的抵制,这在性别与阶级的交叉中显而易见。交叉性错误认识的价值在于使女性领导者清楚地认识到不平等现象,以及在哪些地方可能存在具有动员变革潜力的生产性紧张关系。
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期刊介绍: Gender, Work & Organization is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was established in 1994 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the role of gender on the workfloor. In addition to the regular issues, the journal publishes several special issues per year and has new section, Feminist Frontiers,dedicated to contemporary conversations and topics in feminism.
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