Representations: Gender

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Created by: Emily Edwards
Created on: 12-06-12 19:05

What is a representation?

The way mass media portrays a particular social groups, individual or events

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What is a stereotype?

Widely-held beliefs about the characteristics of members of a social group

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In the 1950's-1970's how were women portrayed in the media?

Housewife, mother, domestic servant, consumer and sex object

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How were women who worked full-time portrayed in the media in 1950's-1970's and who conducted this study.

They were paid as unhappily married by Tuchsman(1981)

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Tunstall (1983) found that women in 1960's and 70's were portrayed for their?

Domestic and sexual activties

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Gauntlett (2002) claimed there was three main changes in the way women were portrayed in the media during the 90's, what were they?

Increase in female characters, less were shown as housewives (3%) and female and male characters and equal statuses.

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Who claimed that British soaps have a strong female character to drive story lines?

Abercrombie ( 1996)

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What two sociologist examined the change in how magazines claimed women should be?

Mcrobbie (1999) and Ferguson (1983)

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What percentage of men are still dominant speackers in the media? ( Gauntlett, 2002)

63%

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Who found that women on sports channels were still 'sexualised, trivialised and devalued'.

Newbold et al (2002)

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