Seyedeh Razieh Yasini
Abstract
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, women were the subject of various discourses. The media played a central role in the discourse construction about women. Written media, including artistic-literary journals, can construct social realities that influence society. This paper inquires into the ...
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After the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, women were the subject of various discourses. The media played a central role in the discourse construction about women. Written media, including artistic-literary journals, can construct social realities that influence society. This paper inquires into the ways in which women have been constructed by these journals in the reform era (1997-2005) to find out how these journals have represented women and to what field of discourse they refer. Thus, Stuart Hall’s theory of media representation, which focuses on the construction approach, was applied to the study of 27 selected artistic-literary or art journals published during the reform era. The selected art journals were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results showed that the studied journals that represented women were classified into three categories: 1. The ones that ignored women; they did not play a discursive constructive role for women in the reform era 2. Those that had a low representation of women; they put women in the side lines 3. The journals that constructed women in a particular discourse. The constructed representation of women in the 3rd category of art journals studied appealed to the reform and popular-commercial discourse.
