Konstruksi jender dalam pertarungan simbolik di media massa

This article examines gender construction in a symbolic dispute in the mass-media that covers euphe–mism and form of censorship. Using critical discourse analysis and hermeneutic, the study concludes that euphe–mism style of male and female in mass media is perceived as a process of shaping and constructing the role patterns of the male and female which then externalized to be a culture. In order to avoid being seen as a violence, gender construction of male and female is done by a variety of styles; changing, neutrallizing the general meaning and defining definition differrently. The form of censorship used by the perpetrator of gender construction in order to maintain the domination is conducted by conceptualizing