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• Title:
  The Ruling Discourse on Proper Womanhood in the Hungarian Parliament
• Creator:
  Annus, Iren
• Contributor:
  University of Szeged;
  iannus@lit.uszeged.hu
• Description:
  Starting with a debate in September 2012 on the incorporation of domestic violence as a distinct offence in Hungary’s new Criminal Code, the issue of gender and proper womanhood has regularly re-surfaced in statements made by ruling coalition MPs in parliamentary debates. Drawing on discourse analysis, this study investigates a selection of these statements in the context of the government’s current policy and public discourse. The paper argues that these discourses outline an essentialist model reflective of a dominant ideology that is traditional, Christian, patriarchal and heteronormative, which, by hinting at women’s accountability for certain social ills, also allows for a chain of associations that ultimately results in the subversion of the overall social status of women, dividing and marginalising them further and discrediting any claims or actions aimed at establishing a more egalitarian society in the country.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2014.12.23;
  2014.11
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Lodz University Press
• Relation:
  16(2014);
• Subject:
  Hungary,;
  political discourse,;
  FIDESZ-KDNP coalition,;
  gender hierarchy;
  proper womanhood;
  motherhood
• Identifier:
  1641-4233;
  DOI: 10.2478/ipcj-2014-0001 ;http://hdl.handle.net/11089/5980 ;
  2300-8695
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image