Gender & media
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This document discusses gender and media. It introduces gender studies as a field that analyzes how race, ethnicity, sexuality and other factors intersect with gender. Gender studies challenges the distinction between sex and gender, arguing that both are socially constructed. The document examines how movies, advertising and other media influence ideas of beauty, masculinity and femininity from a young age. It also discusses Judith Butler's theory of gender as performative and looks at some examples of how historical advertising reflected and shaped gender norms.
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- 11. What about the men? Mickey Mouse Monopoly. Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power (2001)
- 12. How do movies, news shows, advertising, magazines, music videos etc. affect our idea of beauty, ugliness, of what is womanly, or manly?
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- 16. What is gender? What is sex? Biological construct? Social construct? What’s on your ID card? What’s the word in Arabic for gender? sex?
- 18. Introducing Gender Studies http://www.fmarion.edu Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location. Healey, J. F. (2003). "Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class : the Sociology of Group Conflict and Change".
- 19. Judith Butler: gender performativity Challenged the distinction often made between sex & gender; sex is biological while gender is culturally constructed. That is, both sex and gender are constructed. Gender Trouble: Feminism & the Subversion of Identity (1990)
- 20. Gender as a performative It is a “doing” that makes gender what it claims it is. We are not a gender, we do or perform a gender.
- 21. Calling for “gender trouble”, for people to trouble the categories of gender through performance
- 22. Looking at one example of relation between Gender & Media
- 33. Blog about it. Tweet about it. A media image is a construction, therefore it can be changed!