It's a Problem of Culture (for Them)

Orientalist Framing in News on Violence Against Women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2415486
AutoresNapoleon Chagnon (0000-0002-4105-5521)
Año2020
Volumen10
Número4
Páginas480-500
Fecha de publicación2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRace and Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2153-3687 • E-ISSN: 2153-3687
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2153368718768374
OpenAlexW2801779404
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas32

This research examines chronological patterns in the social construction of violence against women in the United States and abroad as represented by coverage in the New York Times. It is found that while criminal justice-oriented discourse dominates coverage, the news is less often applying a social problem frame to violence against women occurring in the United States and increasingly linking such violence to culture when it happens in Islamic societies. Thus, coverage contributes to cultural acceptance of an Orientalist binary that juxtaposes "progressive" Western nations with "backward" Eastern ones. Such a finding is consistent with feminist scholarship on Orientalism and discourse surrounding violence against women. This article concludes by considering how such Orientalism serves contemporary neoliberal governmentality

Criminal justice · Criminology · Framing (construction · Governmentality · Islam · Islamophobia · Media studies · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Sex work and related issues · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence