This paper analyzes the contrasting media portrayals of female political participation in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Through a thorough discourse analysis of Saudi, British, and American newspaper articles surrounding the 2015 municipal elections, we scrutinize how the portrayal of women as a subject group has shifted from one that requires the constant approval of guardians in the public sphere to one that makes its own decisions and actively participates in politics. We analyze what types of discourses and frames have supported this drastic shift in official Saudi media discourses. We then contrast these findings with the portrayal of Saudi female political participation in Western countries that claim to uphold human rights and gender equality, in contrast to Saudi Arabia. Finally, we contrast our findings with the perceptions of 50 female Saudis regarding female agency and political participation in Saudi Arabia.

本文分析了沙特阿拉伯王国女性参政的不同媒体形象。通过对有关2015年市政选举的沙特，英国和美国报纸的文章进行详尽的话语分析，我们仔细研究了女性作为一个主题群体的描绘是如何从需要公共领域的监护人不断批准的女性角色转变为自己的决定，并积极参与政治。我们分析了哪些类型的言论和框架支持了沙特官方媒体言论的这种急剧转变。然后，我们将这些发现与沙特阿拉伯在西方国家中声称捍卫人权和两性平等的西方国家女性政治参与的刻画进行了对比。最后，