The truth about a woman – feminism and trivialisation in women’s luxury press in Poland Cover Image

Prawda o kobiecie – feminizm i trywializacja w kobiecej prasie segmentu luksusowego w Polsce
The truth about a woman – feminism and trivialisation in women’s luxury press in Poland

Author(s): Olivia Kłusek
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: feminism; women’s press; girl power; pop feminism; latte feminism; luxury magazines segment; content analysis; discourse analysis; ‘Twój Styl’; ‘Wysokie Obcasy Extra’; ‘Wysokie Obcasy’;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the thesis is the issue of the trivialization of the concept of feminism in the segment of luxurious women’s press. As a starting point the author adopted the phenomenon of negotiating the meaning of feminism in the media. The thesis was investigated at an angle of feminist discourse (understood as a way of using the language) trivialisation in Poland. The aim of this study was to describe the indications of post feminist discourse forms: latte-feminism, pop-feminism and girl power and to detect the connection between them and a particular press title (‘Twój Styl’, ‘Wysokie Obcasy’, ‘Wysokie Obcasy Extra’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’). In the course of the thesis definitions of forms of post-feminism – previously unheard in academic work – were developed. The study was based on content analysis that showed the most important trends, used later to critical discourse analysis.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 27-44
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish