The Media - Representations of Gender

Question 1

Gaye Tuchman - underrepresentation and symbolic annihilation

Answer 1

• women represented in narrow range of social roles, whilst men represented in full range of social and occupational roles

Question 2

Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation 2006

Answer 2

little coverage of women’s sport but any coverage trivialised, sexualised and devalued women’s sporting achievements

Question 3

Lauren Mulvey - The Male Gaze

Answer 3

• camera focusses and lingers on women’s bodies to put in perspective of heterosexual men
• women are displayed as sexual objects for character and spectator
• women represented as sexual objects rather than a whole person

Question 4

Mulvey - male gaze cause

Answer 4

occurs in film as heterosexual men are in control of camera.
‘malestream’ - made by men for men

Question 5

Tebbel - persistence of the beauty myth

Answer 5

women under more pressure than ever to conform as real women have been replaced with computer manipulated, airbrushed women with plastic surgery

Question 6

David Gauntlett - media gender and identity

Answer 6

increase in diversity of representations since 1970s and corresponding decrease in stereotypical representations which reflects wider societal change.