Un ethos politique féminin ? Le discours de l’extrême droite en Espagne ou la porosité des frontières discursives
A Female Political Ethos? Right-Wing Discourse in Spain or the Porosity of Discursive Borders

Summary/Abstract: After being considered a kind of weakness for a long time, feminity seems to have reversed its stigma and has become a positive value in the political discourse due to the stereotypes usually related to it, which allow to define the female political ethos in terms of empathy, affectivity and non-aggressive behaviour. However, the women of the emerging right-wing party in Spain, VOX, contradict this trend by assuming an extremely polarized anti-feminist discourse. Based on a four-hour corpus of public speeches, this paper aims to analyse the topics and the rhetorical strategies used in those speeches, which will show how porous the dichotomy "male-female" can be when it comes to political discourse.

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