Portrayal of Muslim Women by Western Print Media: A Textual Analysis in Feministic & Orientalist Perspective

Abstract

Through its technological advancement, mass media controls and reshape human behaviors, thoughts, values and choices apart from reinforcing the racialized discourses into the minds of the audience at an ideological level. This study evaluates the ‘delineation of Muslim women particularly in the news magazines Time and Newsweek’ generalizing the results to Western print media. Prime objective of the study is to explore the utilization of several implications and associations to portray Muslim women in particular perspective. This census research has used textual analysis to analyze the data for study. The assessment of the study qualitatively revealed that Western print media still practiced the same prejudiced frames to identify Muslim women. Real Muslim women who own Islamic values and their veils with pride were never seemed to be focused as positive subject by the Western print media.