Gender and the Media & Gendered Body

Question 1

The idea that women are both visible (appealing/potential object of a man’s attention) and invisible (lack of voice/perspective)

Answer 1

The Male Gaze

Question 2

Naomi Wolf wrote this book how this concept keeps women out of the realm of business and politics. Women are still heavily assessed by standards of beauty and reinforces the male gaze

Answer 2

The Beauty Myth

Question 3

Issues around gender/ability can be discussed as both…

Answer 3

discredited and discreditable stigmas.

Question 4

Both men and women with physical disabilities have decreased…

Answer 4

…body esteem based on perceived sexual attractiveness.

Question 5

Men are also negatively impacted by the level of dependence upon others and women with disabilities are more likely to experience…

Answer 5

…poverty, more likely to remain single, and less likely to become mothers.

Question 6

Disability threatens hegemonic characteristics for men such as?

Answer 6

independence, dominance, strength and athleticism

Question 7

Intersections of the gendered body and race are attached to…

Answer 7

…discredited stigma

Question 8

Both gender and race are performance identities because they produce…

Answer 8

…embodied performances and mannerisms that are both racialized and gendered.

Question 9

A lot of tropes over sexualize

Answer 9

the gendered and racialized body

Question 10

“Throwing like a Girl” by Iris Young highlights the ways in which…

Answer 10

…women and men are taught to use space, which then impacts their performance in sport. Women are often more sexualized than men in sports.

Question 11

Milestone and Meyer (2010) suggest that we investigate what three things about the media:

Answer 11

1. who produces the message
2. who is represented in the message
3. who is consuming the media message

Question 12

when investigating gender in media, what should we consider?

Answer 12

issues of participation + representation

Question 13

where exposure to one stimulus influences the response to a related stimulus (ex. media influencing the way we think/behave)

Answer 13

Associative Priming

Question 14

Mary Beth Oliver (2003) suggests that

Answer 14

when we view certain types of media that reinforce pre-conceived ideas they help to mediate how the material presented to them is interpreted and understood.

Simply: we are primed to receive a certain message and we actively ignore messages that challenge our pre-conceived notions

Question 15

Early television (black and white) gender representation in the 1950s (5):

Answer 15

-gender binary
- nuclear family traditional gender roles
- Heteronormativity
- Acceptance of subtle domestic violence
- Ideas of moral decency for women and men

Question 16

The 1960-70s was marked by second wave feminism, which also impacted female depictions on television (3)

Answer 16

• depictions of females became complicated
• tensions between idealized and realist depictions of women
• women gained power but were still seen in sexualized/submissive roles

Question 17

Contemporary television shows still represent a gender binary. Susan Douglas (2010) suggests that this is based on the premise…

Answer 17

…that gender equality has occurred that feminism is no longer relevant

Question 18

women have made sufficient progress, thus stereotypes can be reintroduced

Answer 18

Enlightened Sexism

Question 19

“retrosexual” depictions of men

Answer 19

ex. Barney from how I met your mother