State Discourses on Women’s Empowerment in Qatar: The “Ideal Qatari Woman” as a Neoliberal Feminist Subject

Q1 Social Sciences Journal of Arabian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/21534764.2022.2199371
Alainna Liloia
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Abstract This article analyzes contemporary state discourse on women’s empowerment in Qatar as embodied in state documents, government-run public relations campaigns, and the media output of state-run or state-sanctioned institutions. Through the lens of critical discourse analysis, the article demonstrates how the Qatari state’s political rhetoric conflates women’s professional advancement with national progress and constructs the “ideal Qatari woman” as a neoliberal feminist subject. With particular attention to the rhetoric found in the state-run magazine Q Life, the article argues that the Qatari state is promoting a model of women’s empowerment that merges transnational paradigms of neoliberal feminism with nationalist ideals of loyalty and patriotism and presents the ideal “Qatari woman” as a neoliberal feminist subject who contributes to her state’s national development through her own professional development and fulfillment.
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卡塔尔女性赋权的国家话语:作为新自由主义女权主义主体的“理想卡塔尔女性”
摘要本文分析了卡塔尔当代关于妇女赋权的国家话语,这些话语体现在国家文件、政府公关活动以及国有或国家认可机构的媒体输出中。本文透过批判性话语分析的镜头,展示卡塔尔政府的政治修辞如何将女性的职业发展与国家进步混为一谈,并建构“理想的卡塔尔女性”作为新自由主义的女性主义主体。文章特别关注官方杂志《Q Life》中的修辞,认为卡塔尔政府正在推广一种女性赋权的模式,这种模式将新自由主义女权主义的跨国范式与民族主义的忠诚和爱国主义理想融合在一起,并将理想中的“卡塔尔女性”呈现为新自由主义女权主义主体,通过自身的职业发展和成就为国家的国家发展做出贡献。
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