Gender theorys Flashcards
David Gauntlett
Identity theory
Media is a tool to construct out own identities’ the past the media tended to convey straightforward messages about gender identies, the media today offer us a diverse range of stars.
Laura Mulvey
Male gaze
Women are objectified partichualy in film because hetersexual men are in control of the camera.Women are considered the passive gender( to be looked at) and men the active gender ( to do the looking).
Scopophilia
The notion of looking but from a heightened sexual perspective. involves direct gaze from the subject to the observer
Van Zoozen
Gender is constructed through discourse, that its meaning varies according to cultural and historical context.Idea that objectification of women is a core element of western patriachal culture.The visual and narritive codes used to construct the male body as spectacle differ from those used to objectify the female body.
Bell hooks
- Feminism is a struggle to end sexist/ patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination.
- Feminsim is a political commitment rather than a lifestyle chocie.
- Race and class as well as sex determine the extent to which individuals are exploited, discriminated against or oppressed.
Naomi Wolf
Beauty Myth
The imagery being used is considered to be unattainable.
Hilary Radner
Psychofemme/ masculine femineity
Female action heroines have rejected the violence shown toward women by becoming equally violent than men, adopting tough characteristic usually associated with men.
Donald L. Mosher and Mark Sirkin
Hypermasculinity
- a callous sexual attitude towards women
-the belief violence is manly
-the experience of danger as exciting
Jackson Katz
Violent masculinity
Boys and young men learn early on that being a so called “real man” means that you have to take on this tough guise.
New man/ metrosexuality
new man: reject sexist attitudes, in touch with his femine side.not afraid to be sensitive.
metrosexuality: a man who is meticulous about grooming and appearance.
