traditional/negative representations of femininity

Question 1

tunstall

Answer 1

• the media representations emphasise women’s domestic, sexual, consumer and marital activities.
• The media ignores the fact that a majority of British women go out to work.
• In comparison men are seldom presented nude of defined by their marital or family status

Question 2

Tuchman

Answer 2

• narrow range of role for women lead to their symbolic annihilation in the media.
• The mass media omit, trivialise or condemn certain groups that are not socially valued such as women
  mothers
• Housewives
• Sex objects

Question 3

Ferguson

Answer 3

cult of feminity

Question 4

glascock

Answer 4

• aggression in media text.
  -Males were more physically aggressive
• females were verbally aggressive especially in comedies