Representation of gender
- Created by: Reema
- Created on: 04-05-16 16:37
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- Representation of gender
- Women
- Stereotypes
- Negative
- 'The girl next door'
- tall
- Slim
- 'convenitally beautiful'
- Friendly and happy personality
- Family life
- female characters in a domestic situation or environment
- No strong desire to involve in outside-world issues
- the home setting it where the females expertise is highly valued
- E.g. cook, housework, raise the children.
- Professional life
- Do not have the technical or physical skills to do diy jobs like men
- 'clean jobs'
- teachers
- librarians
- secretary
- Occupations require patience, carefulness and warm-heartedness
- Not ambitious to build a career?
- Sexualised
- more focus on their body than personality
- Emotional
- Characters who don't fit into the mold of the traditional stereotypes can be considered dangerous and deviant
- 'The girl next door'
- Positive
- Caring and loving
- Negative
- Roles
- Relationship issues
- Shared feminine identity
- Narrative openness
- Female ensemble dramas
- Not independent but as a group or need male support
- Objects for males
- Produced to gratify male viewers
- Bearers of children
- In need of protection
- Stereotypes
- Men
- Stereotypes
- Indepence
- Does things themselves and is not reliant on anyone else
- 'lone hero'
- Strong
- Physically
- Mentally (not like an emotional female)
- Sexual attractiveness
- Power
- May this be in the business world in a personal relationship
- Professional life
- Doctors not nursers
- 'dirty jobs'
- construction or mechanics
- Don't sew or do crafts
- Family life
- Do not do housework
- Breadwinner
- Don't look after the children
- Part of narrative but not main factor of characters role
- Negative
- Can't cook
- Lazy
- Messy
- Indepence
- Roles
- Serious storyline
- Romance controlled
- Narrative closer (patriarchal ideology)
- Sole characters
- Or with one or two sidekicks
- Male heroes
- Active roles which lead the narrative
- Outnumbers females
- Dominant
- Protectors
- Stereotypes
- Theories
- Male gaze
- Relegates women to the status of objects
- Women are there for the visual pleasure of men - for them to be gazed and used as objects
- Props characters theory
- Princess / heroine
- The heroine is usually a passive and vulnerable character, threatened by the villain and needing rescuing by the hero.
- Hero
- Traditionally the hero is a male protagonist whose role it is to restore normality or equilibrium. He does this by defeating the villain(s) and winning the love of the heroine.
- Princess / heroine
- McNeil (1975) tested a 7 point critque outline and found that many were true
- Female characters are fewer in numbers and less central to the plot
- Marriage and parenthood are considered more important to/in a woman's life than a man's
- TV portrays the traditional division in labour (typical roles of women and men)
- Employed women are shown in traditionally female occupations, as subordinates to men and with little status or power.
- TV-women are more personally-and less professionally-oriented than TV-men.
- Female characters are more passive than male characters.
- Television dramatic programming ignores the existence of the women’s movement.
- Male gaze
- Women
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