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	Feminist Content Analysis	Thematic Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Qualitative Research
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1978	2006
Originator	Feminist social researchers (Shulamit Reinharz; Gaye Tuchman)	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Type	Gender-critical qualitative and quantitative text analysis	Method
Seminal source	Reinharz, S. (1992). Feminist Methods in Social Research. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195073867	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Aliases	Feminist Textual Analysis, Gender-Sensitive Content Analysis, Feminist Media Content Analysis	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
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Summary	Feminist content analysis is a method for systematically examining texts, media, and documents to reveal how gender is represented, constructed, and reproduced, interpreting those patterns through feminist theory and an explicit concern with power. It adapts the established techniques of content analysis — corpus definition, coding, and counting — but reorients them toward questions of how women, men, and gender relations are portrayed, whose voices are centered or silenced, and how representations sustain or contest gender inequality.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.