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GENDER
TROPES
NICOLAS BLOVSKY
UNDERSTANDING
GENDER
Gender is perhaps the basic category society and ourselves
use for sorting human beings. Because of this, it has become
a key issue when discussing media representations.
Essential elements of our own identity, and the identities we
assume other people have.
Through our exposure to media products such as
advertising, we grow up with an awareness of what society
constitutes ‘appropriate’ characteristics.
MASCULINITY
Much of the debate around stereotyping and use of tropes
over the past 50 years has centred around women and of
femininity. There are obvious reasons for this.
However, modern studies have increasingly applied similar
attention to concerns of masculinity:
• Any study of women's representation is of gender
• The dominant patriarchal structures are based on
conventional ideas of the role of men
• The male gaze model of how women are seen defines
conventional ideas of masculinity
• Female representation has lead to a wider analysis of
gender representation.
Men have been traditionally seen as the dominant gender. Men
dominate in key areas of society and different cultures the political,
the social, the arts. As such, they have been positioned to define
masculinity in terms favourable to their gender.
Traditionally such a role is associated with:
• Patriarchal power (physical and cultural)
• Aggression/violence (power)
• Sexually dominant (power)
• Risk-taking (physical; sexual; financial)
• Independence/restlessness/freedom
• Economic success (power)
• Intelligence/cunning
• Bravado
MODERN
MASCULINITY
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Gender tropes

  • 2. UNDERSTANDING GENDER Gender is perhaps the basic category society and ourselves use for sorting human beings. Because of this, it has become a key issue when discussing media representations. Essential elements of our own identity, and the identities we assume other people have. Through our exposure to media products such as advertising, we grow up with an awareness of what society constitutes ‘appropriate’ characteristics.
  • 3. MASCULINITY Much of the debate around stereotyping and use of tropes over the past 50 years has centred around women and of femininity. There are obvious reasons for this. However, modern studies have increasingly applied similar attention to concerns of masculinity: • Any study of women's representation is of gender • The dominant patriarchal structures are based on conventional ideas of the role of men • The male gaze model of how women are seen defines conventional ideas of masculinity • Female representation has lead to a wider analysis of gender representation.
  • 4. Men have been traditionally seen as the dominant gender. Men dominate in key areas of society and different cultures the political, the social, the arts. As such, they have been positioned to define masculinity in terms favourable to their gender. Traditionally such a role is associated with: • Patriarchal power (physical and cultural) • Aggression/violence (power) • Sexually dominant (power) • Risk-taking (physical; sexual; financial) • Independence/restlessness/freedom • Economic success (power) • Intelligence/cunning • Bravado
  • 5.