Media Representation of Muslim Women in ‘Time’ & ‘Newsweek’: A Comparative Analysis within Feministic Perspective

Abstract

This research study patently aims to examine media representation of Muslim Women within Feministic perspective by analyzing its content published in ‘Time’ and ‘Newsweek’ during the selected time period of 2011 – 2013. One of the main objectives of this study is to dig out the prevailing differences within overall coverage of both news magazines regarding the Muslim women. These differences are further studied in four different dimensions i.e. categories, slants, tones and themes. Basically, this is a census study (as the collected data was limited) where content analysis has been used as research methodology. Whereas, Z-score statistical test is applied for the analysis. In results, study reveals that there are slight differences between the way both magazines present the Muslim women. Both news magazines mainly highlight ‘Progressive women’ favorably; discuss Islam negatively; and Social Status of the Muslim women has mainly been highlighted throughout the designated time interval.