This study analyses media coverage of two Māori women politicians in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article adopts an intersectional lens to critically examine the discriminatory ideologies at play in mainstream New Zealand media coverage of Metiria Turei and Paula Bennett. The analysis reveals that although the coverage examined in this article presents the Māori heritage of the two women very differently, the coverage pays close attention to both women’s gender and bodies while simultaneously diminishing their individuality by folding them into stereotypes. Classification and disempowerment of ‘stroppy women’/‘stirrer Māori’ are enabled by the intersection of racist, sexist and classist discourses.

这项研究分析了新西兰奥特罗阿的两名毛利女性政客的媒体报道。本文采用交叉镜头来严格审查新西兰主流媒体对Metiria Turei和Paula Bennett的歧视意识形态。分析表明，尽管本文所考察的报道所呈现的两名妇女的毛利遗产有很大不同，但报道却密切关注了妇女的性别和身体，同时通过将其刻板印象折叠而减少了其个性。种族主义，性别歧视和阶级主义话语的交集使“流浪妇女” /“下流毛利人”的分类和丧失权力成为可能。