Topic 4 - Media Representations: Gender, Sexuality And Disability

Question 1

Are women underrepresented in the media?

Answer 1

Yes - in positions of power and influence in the management of the media industry and among editors, journalists and tv producers.

Question 2

What did the international women’s media foundation find?

Answer 2

In uk news companies, women were marginalised in the news rooms and decision making hierarchies and that women faced a glass ceiling which is an invisible barrier to progress in their careers.

Question 3

How does Mulvey define the male gaze?

Answer 3

Men look at women as sexual objects with images of women focusing on their physical appearance and sexuality using camera angles that focus on women’s sex appeal suggestions of or actual nudity often in a way to provide erotic pleasure for men.