Gender And The Media

Question 1

What does butler and Paisley TV “ women and the mass media” suggest about gender and the media

Answer 1

90% voice overs men 
70% women domestic only 10 men 
60% women in family roles 
Women underrep in action 
Women victims of violence

Question 2

What does Gaye tuchmans “hearth and the home” study suggest about gender and media

Answer 2

Females are domestic, Males are authority, men outnumber women 3:1 women suffered symbolic annihilation game shoes presented by men

Question 3

What does Gallagher suggest about (gender and the media)

Answer 3

Activities of women rarely seen as newsworthy

Question 4

Hat does just the women report argues(gender and the media)

Answer 4

Reporting lacks context and photos focus on women’s apperaence and press objectify women
Reporting of rape glamorises abuse against women and women’s issues stereotypes

Question 5

What does L weirzman argue (gender and the media)

Answer 5

Pre school booked to women 11:1
Girls are passive and housebound
Makes outdoors strong and independent
Women wives and mythical creatures

Question 6

What does prof Emma renold argue about (gender and the media)

Answer 6

125 children ages 10,11,12
Little choice in participating in boy girl culture
Enhanced social status or social exclusion
Girls in heels to ward off older girls
Boys have six packs to protect themselves
Body anxiety I’m girls

Question 7

What does n wolf suggest (gender and the media)

Answer 7

Beauty myth

Question 8

What is a supporting study for the male gaze

Answer 8

Laura mulvey film makers satisfy the male gaze

Kilbourne women are mannequins

Question 9

What are the six main assumptions in rape in the media (gender and the media)

Answer 9

Loss of control 
Sexual provocation 
Spatial provocation 
Brutal attack 
Spontaneous event 
Attack by stranger

Question 10

What are two studies that show changes in media representations (gender and the media)

Answer 10

Brundsman UK and U.S. Changed strong women

Abercrombie soaps story lines show strong women Peggy Mitchell

Question 11

What do magazines still focus on (gender and the media)

Answer 11

Beauty and slimming

Question 12

What does Gill suggest about femal issues (gender and the media)

Answer 12

They are marginalised

Question 13

What is Jonathan Rutherfords concept

Answer 13

The new man and retributive male

Question 14

What do Marxist and Marxist feminist argue (gender and the media)

Answer 14

Media is sexist and maximise profits for ads and itself

Creates false needs

Question 15

What do radical feminists argue

Answer 15

Media is a way of reinforcing patriarchy
Maintaining female subservience
Females fooled into beauty myth
Men’s maga retributive masculinity

Question 16

What do liberal feminists argue (gender and the media)

Answer 16

Media still stereotype but improving

Media portrayals will become more realistic

Question 17

What do popular feminists argue (gender and the media)

Answer 17

Media underestimate women’s power to see through stereotypes
No real evidence media reflects behaviour
Heterogeneous audiences interpret them differently

Question 18

What do postmodernist a argue (gender and the media)

Answer 18

Diversity for identities offered by media

Gauntlet media today challenges traditional and ecotage diversity