Gender Representation (Male)
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- Gender Representation (Male)
- In 2005, fewer than 5% of chief executives of the largest companies in Britain and fewer than 10% of editors of national newspapers are female
- Men and the Media
- Children Now (1999)
- Asked boys between 10-17 what they thought about males TV
- Attention focused on girls
- Shown in workplace
- Violent + angry
- Leaders + problem solvers
- Funny, confident, successful
- Rarely cry
- Children Now (1999)
- Easthorpe
- Media portrays a real man as is based on strength, aggression, and violence
- This myth means that men are unable to reach this goal of 'true hegemonic masculinity'
- McNamra
- 80% of representations were negative
- 20% focused on metrosexual male
- Men demonised by media representations of masculinity
- Magazines for men
- e.g. GQ
- e.g emotionally vulnerable, achieve fatherhood etc.
- Postmodernist
- Mort
- Rise in male fashion magazines/products reflects the change in social attitudes of men and emergence of metrosexual man
- Mort
- Gauntlett
- Studied 'FHM' magazine
- Positive as it encouraged men to be caring, considerate lovers, useful in the home, fashionable, and funny
- Gauntlett
- Studied 'FHM' magazine
- Positive as it encouraged men to be caring, considerate lovers, useful in the home, fashionable, and funny
- Positive as it encouraged men to be caring, considerate lovers, useful in the home, fashionable, and funny
- Studied 'FHM' magazine
- Gauntlett
- Positive as it encouraged men to be caring, considerate lovers, useful in the home, fashionable, and funny
- Studied 'FHM' magazine
- Colliers
- Messages are contradictory
- Images are of rugged extra-strong macho men
- Rutherford
- Media attempt to reclaim masculine authority by celebrating traditionally male concerns
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