Feminist Discourse Analysis

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.