Review article
Woman is a wolf to woman? On misogynic figures of journalistic discourse
Željana Puljiz-Šostik
; Posgraduate (Doctoral) Study Program of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Women who have media power additionally complicate the anyway unfinished process of emancipation of women in Croatia, because they turned it against women. From feminist criticism viewpoint the paper analyses the dominant misogynic rhetorical instruments in a journalistic discourse (mostly in reviews for women) and the author also calls attention to a recent intensified misogyny of figurative expressions, especially if they are about a woman’s age, weight and body appearance, as well as to intensified misogyny of advertising rhetoric (aggressive commercials). In the end, attention is drawn to contemporary Croatian language dictionaries and to the definitions of the lexeme “woman”.
Keywords
medium; feminist criticism; rhetoric; stylistics; misogyny
Hrčak ID:
174609
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2011.
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