#getthefuckout: Feminist Framing under Democratic Backsliding in Poland and Hungary
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2025-06-13
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This thesis examines the framing strategies of feminist movements in contexts of democratic backsliding. Since democratic backsliding often has specific gendered dimensions, it is essential to explore how women in these contexts understand and communicate their struggles and demands. Through a framing analysis of Facebook posts of the Polish women’s organizations Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet and Dziewuchy Dziewuchom, and the Hungarian women’s organizations NANE and Patent, this thesis finds that the way these issues are understood, highly differ per context. Where the Polish women’s organizations used frames that were embedded in a broader discourse of system critique and empowerment, their Hungarian counterparts framed their issues as substantial policy critique, without emphasis on mobilization. These findings suggest that the way women’s movements frame (and are able to frame) their struggles and demands in countries experiencing democratic backsliding, is strongly influenced by national contexts. In the cases examined, these contexts induced either confrontational framing strategies or resulted in more cautious forms of framing that balanced between resistance and survival.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen