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	Feminist Discourse Analysis	Thematic Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Qualitative Research
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2005	2006
Originator	Michelle M. Lazar	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Type	Critical feminist discourse-analytic method	Method
Seminal source	Lazar, M. M. (2007). Feminist critical discourse analysis: Articulating a feminist discourse praxis. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(2), 141–164.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Aliases	Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, FCDA, Feminist CDA	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Related	4	3
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.	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.