Mass Media: Media Representations - Gender
- Created by: bethjohnson1
- Created on: 12-06-16 15:10
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2. Who believed that women are hardly in the news?
- Gallagher
- Tuchman
- Gill
3. What did Gill believe?
- women are symbolically annihilated in the media
- female issues are often marginalised by newspapers in that the editors see the need to have women's pages which focus on women as a special group
- women are invisible in the media
4. What is meant by the term "symbolic annihilation"?
- women's sports rarely covered
- womens achievements are often not reported, or are condemned or trivialised by the mass media - achievements presented as less important than looks and sex appeal
- women hardly in news
- women are invisible in the media
5. Who believed that magazines promote a cult of femininity which shows how excellence is achieved through caring for others, marriage and appearance?
- Orbach
- Ferguson
- Wolf
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