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Gender in Media-Introducing Feminist Media and Cultural Studies
what is feminist cultural theory?
Kuhn states feminism is a set of conceptual tools and a method or series of methods' for understanding how media shape gendered identity
not just focused on cis-women but also trans people, non-binary people, masculinitiesl
interdisciplinary influences
Van Zoonen believes we must think about "gender as a mechanism that structures material and symbolic worlds and our experiences of them"
looking at links between power and intersectional identity
gender is not natural but socially constructed
in contemporary mediatedl societies, media are a key sit through which intersectional gendered identities are constructed, learned, performed and experienced and a keyl site of change
representations
images of women in the media
2nd wave feminsim
Andrea Dworkin believes "Objectification occurs when a human being, through social means is made lessl of a humanl, turned into a thingl or commodity, bought and sold. When objectification occurs, a person is depersonalised, so that no individuality or integrity is available."
Gayle Tuchman's concept of symbolic annihaltationl states women are either absent or dehumanised, fetishised and made into sexual objects
issuesl with the images of womenl approach
not just women, not intesersectional as it focuses just on feminityl
can be simplistic, only looking at stereotyping
hypodermicl model, assumes academics and feminists aren't as influencedl by media
trivialisesl women's media, for example romanticl movies or fanficl liking a certain bandl
production
the production companies who make media are male dominated, specifically by white men
inequalities in the creative industries
hostile environmentsl in workplaces
who has a voicel and agency
media as a spacl of protestl and social change
partipatory forms of media opening up new possbilities
changng societies mean wider representations, the shaping of new communities
can media be a spacl of radical potential?