Gamby, Amanda

Hansen, Nadia Rifki Rathmann

Jensen, Ida Laura Heldam

Jørgensen, Charlotte Srivison

Offersen, Thea Borschau

In this project we investigate the discursive battle around the phenomena of gender perception. To examine this, we use the two podcasts Udråb and Genstart, as well as a video recording from a political debate within the Danish parliament hall. The project aims to take a step back from the political debate and reach a deeper understanding of how discourse works on a textual level. To do so, we base our feminist standpoint from Judith Butler’s understanding of gender. To gain the broadest possible understanding of the discursive battle we have structured our analysis based on Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model for textual, discursive, and social practice. As such, the project has a discursive and textual analysis of the language used in our empirical basis, based on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discursive terms. As well as a social practice analysis that examines the order of discourse with theory from Sara Ahmed and Stuart Hall. This project has identified two main discourses around gender perception: the heteronormative discourse and the queertransformative discourse. Based on our analysis, we can conclude that the heteronormative discourse is the hegemonic discourse, and its focus on the objective truth leads to the exclusion of the queertransformative discourse within the Danish society. As such, the heteronormative discourse holds a position of power, that has multiple consequences for the lives of non-cisgendered persons

The gender debate in the Danish society: An examination of the discursive battle about gender perception in the Danish society

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