Isabel Prado Jacob
Current Organizations / Institutes
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Research Subjects
Isabel Prado Jacob has a total of 5 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
Anna Maria Mayer
Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1 shared publication- Katharina Hametner
Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University, Austria
1 shared publication - Katharina Steinicke
Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1 shared publication - Lena Landertinger
Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1 shared publication - Natalie Rodax
Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- 1 March 2019
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Feminist Media Studies
- Vol. 20 (2) , 203-218
“Cool! Bikini and lingerie instead of Burka!” – the discursive representation of Muslim women in Austrian women’s magazines
Within “Western” controversies, the headscarf is stylised as a symbol of “oppression” and “backwardness” while “unveiling” is simultaneously associated with “self-determination” and “modernity”. As object of a critical discourse analysis, this dichotomisation was also found in Austrian women’s magazines; “the veiled” Muslim woman was constructed as “traditional” and appeared mostly as an “object” of speech. “The unveiled” woman, however, was more frequently featured directly in interviews, typically thematising “modern”—i.e., “Western” assimilated—lifestyles and ways of dressing. Strikingly however, by drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of subalternity, we conclude that also the more “visible” or “hearable” discourse position—even if it seems to provide Muslim women with agency at first glance—similarly colludes in a further silencing of Muslim women.
- 1 March 2019
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Feminist Media Studies
- Vol. 20 (2) , 203-218
“Cool! Bikini and lingerie instead of Burka!” – the discursive representation of Muslim women in Austrian women’s magazines
Within “Western” controversies, the headscarf is stylised as a symbol of “oppression” and “backwardness” while “unveiling” is simultaneously associated with “self-determination” and “modernity”. As object of a critical discourse analysis, this dichotomisation was also found in Austrian women’s magazines; “the veiled” Muslim woman was constructed as “traditional” and appeared mostly as an “object” of speech. “The unveiled” woman, however, was more frequently featured directly in interviews, typically thematising “modern”—i.e., “Western” assimilated—lifestyles and ways of dressing. Strikingly however, by drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of subalternity, we conclude that also the more “visible” or “hearable” discourse position—even if it seems to provide Muslim women with agency at first glance—similarly colludes in a further silencing of Muslim women.