Week 8, Feminist Media Studies Flashcards
Feminism is a political movement that focuses on
gender equality.
First Wave Feminism
Focus on the vote. White women who were married got the vote.
Early 20th century.
Second Wave Feminism
60s, 70s.
Women in the workplace, sexual rights, queer liberation.
Third Wave Feminism
90s.
Body image, second wave issues still not resolved, sexual violence.
Fourth Wave Feminism
Debatable whether or not it exists.
2000s.
Technology and issues of sexual violence and women in politics.
Intersectionality
Class, race, age, gender, identity, immigrant status included in feminism and women’s experience. Richer idea of what is is to be a woman in today’s society.
Feminist Media Studies
Analyzes media texts from intersectional perspective.
Girl’s/women’s media texts are taken seriously in inquiry.
Pays attention to those that are marginalized.
Gender as performance.
Judith Butler tells us that gender is
performed and socially disciplined.
The Male Gaze
Laura Mulvey
Women function as a spectacle in film.
Male spectator can look at women in film from a position of power through shot composition and body fragmentation. –> Women just functioning as a body.
Chatman is interested in
issues of oppression and power, poststructuralism in relation to governmentality, and hegemony.
Postfeminism
A discourse wherein feminism is no longer necessary, this idea that we live in a “postfeminist utopia”.
Circulated texts, assumes that feminism is no longer necessary and is uncool and outdated because individually liberated women are empowered.
An ideology. A discourse and a sensibility.
Why should we be critical of postfeminism and postracism?
Existing structural inequalities, including racial and gendered hierarchies and privilege, are made invisible.
Excuses us from working to challenge racism and sexism.
Maintains hegemonic whiteness and traditional gender roles.
