Mannen och skulden : En genusteoretisk studie om hur offer och gärningsman representeras i nyhetsmedias rapportering av fallet Kulturprofilen

Sammanfattning: The man and the blame – A gender theoretical study of how the victim and the perpetrator are represented in Expressen’s reporting of rape during the trial against Kulturprofilen Jean-Claude Arnault. The theoretical frame of this study is Joan W. Scotts theory of poststructural feminism and Yvonne Hirdmans theory about the gender system, gender contract and the woman’s subordination. To examine how the victim and the perpetrator is represented in Expressen’s reporting of rape during the trial against Kulturprofilen Jean-Claude Arnault a method of critical discource analysis, CDA, has been used. The result of the study showed that the representation of the victim and the perpetrator in Expressen is strives towards equality in the representation in comparison with the international studies that are presented in the study where the victim, often women, are represented as perpetrators and the perpetrator, often men, are represented as victims in the news media reportage of rape when it comes to both Australia and the United kingdom.