‘Next time stay in your war room and pray for your boys’ or return to your kitchen: Sexist discourses in Ghana’s 2019 National Science and Math Quiz

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dc.contributor.authorAgyepong, D.P.
dc.contributor.authorDiabah, G.
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-17T09:46:12Z
dc.date.available2021-12-17T09:46:12Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description|Research Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the representations of women in the discourses on the 2019 edition of Ghana’s National Science and Math Quiz. With data from online news articles and three social media outlets, the study examines stereotypical views about gender and Science/Math while exploring the relationship between language, gender, and culture. We focus on how the authors use memes, images and some linguistic strategies to instantiate certain (Ghanaian) gender norms and practices. Findings suggest that women who pursue (academic) excellence, especially in male dominated fields like Science and Math, are usurpers who need to be kept where they ‘belong’. They are thus presented in particular stereotypical ways – homemakers, supporters, objects of sex and beauty, ‘unfit’ for science/math. Using Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, which makes room for uncovering, contesting and reinterpreting the ‘hidden agendas’ of discourse, we also analyze nuances of the representations, some of which we (re)interpret as representations of women’s power.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI:10.1177/0957926520977220
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/37322
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.subjectFeminist Critical Discourse Analysisen_US
dc.subjectgender stereotypesen_US
dc.subjecthegemonic femininityen_US
dc.subjecthegemonic masculinityen_US
dc.subjectNational Science and Math Quizen_US
dc.subjectrepresentationen_US
dc.subjectsocial mediaen_US
dc.title‘Next time stay in your war room and pray for your boys’ or return to your kitchen: Sexist discourses in Ghana’s 2019 National Science and Math Quizen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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