Communication and Culture- Feminist perspective on culture
- Created by: Ember Cooke
- Created on: 13-05-13 18:01
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- Feminist Perspective on Culture
- Where Marxists see the mass media as promoting capitalism and elite control, feminists have concentrated on the representation of gender roles.
- They see a relationship between gender socialisation and popular culture.
- Popular culture is controlled by ruling class males.
- Popular culture is oppressive.
- Popular culture stereotypes women into submissive roles such as housewife of sex object.
- Where woman are powerful in the mass media it is usually within the family.
- Popular culture encourages women to focus on their bodies as a way of gaining approval.
- Popular culture produces representati-ons of females for the male gaze.
- Popular culture is controlled by ruling class males.
- They see a relationship between gender socialisation and popular culture.
- Liberal feminists believe by changing society's rules and representation-s of women, gender roles will change. They believe there has been changes to gender roles.
- Radical feminists believe change is only possible if women organise away from men.
- Where Marxists see the mass media as promoting capitalism and elite control, feminists have concentrated on the representation of gender roles.
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