Media 1- Gender Traditional and Negative

Question 1

🧺 Tunstall

Answer 1

Key idea: Women shown mainly as wives, mothers, sex objects, or shoppers
Example: Housewives in TV ads or magazines

Question 2

🧨 Tuchman

Answer 2

Key idea: Women have few roles = symbolic annihilation (ignored in media)
Example: Lack of strong female leads in action films

Question 3

🥊 Glascock

Answer 3

Key idea: Women can also be shown as aggressive verbally males= physically
Example: Female characters in Killing Eve or Villanelle

Question 4

KATZ

Answer 4

“epidemic” male violence due to medias inability to move away from stereotypical versions of masculinity
Media portrayals of men= Violence, sexism and homophobic

Question 5

📖 Gauntlett

Answer 5

Key idea: Men’s magazines often show women as sexual objects
Example: FHM, Lads’ Mags, or music videos

Question 6

💪 Easthorpe

Answer 6

Key idea: Media shows masculinity as natural = strength, violence, dominance
Example: Superheroes in Marvel films