Media Representations of Women

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Created on: 05-06-22 10:54

In what four main ways are women and feminitiy presented in the media?

-Sex object
-Housewife and mother
-Domestic servant
-Domestic consumer

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Why would feminists criticise the way women are presented in the media when working outside of the home?

Women are often shown to experience problems when working outside the house which suggests that women can't have everthing and pushes them back into submissive domestic roles.

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What is the male gaze?

How the camera in media serves to objectify women for male pleasure. Presents women as objects of desire in need of saving by men.

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Who came up with the term Symbolic Anihilation?

Tuchman et al. (1978)

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What is symbolic anihilation?

How female achievements are ignored, trivialised or condemned in the media. Women are only ever shown when they're celebrities or being saved by men.

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How did Newbold's study into the portayal of women's sports find they were being symbollically annnihilated?

Women's sport is marginalised in the media and also sexualised.

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Why have depictions of women in the media changed?

The position of women in society has changed over the last 25 years, so the media reflects this cultural change.

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