Abstract

This article presents an original analysis of portrayals of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on websites with radical and extremist content. We analyze and discuss key online narratives about women and their societal roles from 100 sampled online articles published on ten websites that primarily propagate right-wing, nationalist and Salafist thinking. The article shows that while Salafist websites focus on didactic material about how women are expected to act (selectively using the Quran and hadiths), radical ethno-nationalist and right-wing articles directly accuse liberal-thinking women and feminists of immorality, perversity, and shameful behavior. While studied articles on Islamic websites confine women’s roles to family caretakers and to wives, selected ethno-nationalist articles present women in relation to their national belonging and war victimization. We conclude that the studied websites essentialize women’s societal functions, predominantly placing their roles and identities in the private sphere while linking womanhood to collective national and/or religious identity. Although the selected platforms represent different manifestations of extremisms, they share many similarities.

摘要

本文对包含激进和极端主义内容的网站上对波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那 (波黑) 妇女的描绘进行了原创分析。我们从 100 篇主要传播右翼、民族主义和萨拉菲主义思想的网站上发表的 100 篇在线文章中分析和讨论了关于女性及其社会角色的关键在线叙事。这篇文章表明，虽然萨拉菲主义网站专注于关于女性应该如何行事的教学材料（选择性地使用古兰经和圣训），但激进的民族主义和右翼文章直接指责自由思想的女性和女权主义者不道德、变态和可耻的行为。虽然伊斯兰网站上的研究文章将妇女的角色限制在家庭照顾者和妻子的范围内，选定的民族主义文章介绍了妇女的民族归属感和战争受害情况。我们得出的结论是，所研究的网站将女性的社会功能本质化，主要将她们的角色和身份置于私人领域，同时将女性与集体的民族和/或宗教身份联系起来。尽管所选平台代表了极端主义的不同表现形式，但它们有许多相似之处。