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	Feminist Discourse Analysis	Feminist Content Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Gender Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2005	1978
Originator	Michelle M. Lazar	Feminist social researchers (Shulamit Reinharz; Gaye Tuchman)
Type	Critical feminist discourse-analytic method	Gender-critical qualitative and quantitative text analysis
Seminal source	Lazar, M. M. (2007). Feminist critical discourse analysis: Articulating a feminist discourse praxis. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(2), 141–164.	Reinharz, S. (1992). Feminist Methods in Social Research. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195073867
Aliases	Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, FCDA, Feminist CDA	Feminist Textual Analysis, Gender-Sensitive Content Analysis, Feminist Media Content Analysis
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Summary	Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA) extends critical discourse analysis with an explicit feminist politics, examining how gender ideology and asymmetric power relations between women and men are produced, sustained, contested, and above all naturalized in texts and talk. Articulated by Michelle Lazar in her 2005 edited collection and 2007 programmatic article, it combines the close linguistic analysis of the CDA tradition with feminist theory to expose the often subtle, taken-for-granted sexism through which patriarchal arrangements come to seem ordinary and commonsensical.	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.