GENDER ORDER AND HEGEMONIC FEMININITY: HOW THE DIGITAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER PERPETUATES THE NORMALIZATION OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN KAZAKHSTAN
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Date
2022-05
Authors
Kazhenova, Damira
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Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities
Abstract
This study is aimed to explore how gender order becomes hegemonic by enforcing the
standards of hegemonic femininity on women in social media spaces that makes them
question their bodily autonomy and behavior. In particular, the thesis explores how
standards of hegemonic femininity is extensively utilized by the public in order to glorify
national culture and traditions that allows the public to come up with the definition
behind what it means to be a Kazakh woman, thereby, normalizing punishing those
women whose behavior does not align with these standards. By relying on discourse
analysis to analyze the content of the available comments found on Instagram, this study
represents an attempt to research modern Kazakh nationalism from a critical gendered
perspective with a focus on gender-based violence. Thereby, I argue that the diffusion of
gender discourses that takes place online contributes to the construction of hegemonic
standards of femininity that perpetuates the normalization of gender-based violence as
culturally appropriate as well as negative attitudes towards the members of LGBTQ
communities as alien to the national identity.
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Type of access: Open Access, violence, Kazakhstan, hegemonic femininity, gender perpetuates
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Damira Kazhenova (2022). Gender order and hegemonic femininity: how the digital construction of gender perpetuates the normalization of gender based violence in Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev University, Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan