Week 8b - Mediated constructs of gender (Non-essay) Flashcards
1
Q
What are parentcraft texts?
A
- Shaped by changing parenting practices
- Reflect changing parenting practices
- Constitute gendered parenthood
- Representing shared parenthood
2
Q
How is shared parenting represented?
Who, when?
A
Sunderland 2000, 2002 and 2004
- Part-time father/mother main parent
- Father as baby entertainer
- Father as mother’s assistant
- Father as ‘line manager’
- Mother as wife/partner
3
Q
What is the issue faced by writers of parentcraft texts?
A
- They have to be inclusive of a broad audience
eg. Nuclear families, gay parents, single parents etc.
4
Q
Who spoke about Men’s lifestyle magazines?
Names and dates, key points?
A
- Benwell 2003
Important site for modern masculinity
Constructs ideal reader - de Gregorio Godeo 2006
Target of single, affluent, city-dwelling, high earning, high spending heterosexual men
5
Q
Who spoke about problem pages and ‘new man’ identities?
Name, date, key points?
A
1980s
de Gregorio Godeo 2006
- More committed to role as father
- Feelings
- Personal look
- Dealing with women on egalitarian terms
- New Man as media construction
6
Q
Who spoke about new lad identity?
Names, dates, key points?
A
1990s
- Re-creation of hegemonic and patriarchal values, response to 1980s new man
- de Gregorio Godeo
Laddism characterised by all-male attendance at sports, excessive drinking and rough behaviour - Value attached to sexual triumph
- Homophobic humour
7
Q
Who spoke about women’s magazines?
Date and key points?
A
Coffey-Glover
2015
- 4 core themes of masculinity within female magazines
- sex driven, feminine pursuit, heterosexuality normative and dominance
- Maintain hegemonic ideals about masculinity
- Traditional gender roles
- Patriarchal structure upheld
8
Q
Reading key points
Who, when?
A
Godoy-Pressland
2014
- Absence of female athlete in media
- Sportswomen in British Sunda papers 2008 and 2009
- Major sporting events females reported more
- Right-wing papers dedicated least words to women
- Women presented more in ‘appropriate sports’ eg. tennis
- Inequality in British print media
