Kvinnorna, männen och det politiska våldet: En kritisk diskursanalys om svensk medias porträttering av kvinnors och mäns politiska våld inom Islamiska Staten

Sammanfattning: This study examines how Swedish media portrays women’s and men’s political violence. This is done by using critical discourse analysis according to Fairclough’s three dimensional model. The material that’s analyzed is 17 articles produced by some of Sweden’s largest mediahouses. Analyzing the portrayal of women’s and men’s political violence is important because identifying these is one of the first steps to contribute to an understanding of, and change of the view that women’s and men’s violence is different from each other. This study is based on Gentry and Sjoberg’s (2015) theory that women’s political violence is narrated either as mother, monster or whore and that men’s political violence is based on political or ideological reasons. This study found four different categories that explain women’s and men’s political violence. The findings show that men and women are described with gender neutral explanations or that women are mainly portrayed as either mothers or perpetrators and that men are mainly portrayed as perpetrators.