This thesis examines how English elite print media represent Doi Takako and Renho Murata; both women who have participated or participate at prominent positions in Japanese politics. The purpose is...Show moreThis thesis examines how English elite print media represent Doi Takako and Renho Murata; both women who have participated or participate at prominent positions in Japanese politics. The purpose is to shed light onto the notion that media may contribute to a social construction of gender for these Japanese political women, by analysing how their femininity within a leading position is discussed and portrayed by media discourse. This is done by answering the question whether representations of Doi Takako and Renho Murata by English elite print media be regarded as an anti-Japanese political discourse on gender.Show less
