Monday, February 26, 2007

Media, Gender and Identity,An introduction,David Gauntlett

Pg 10
There’s plenty of evidence that traditionally femininity is no longer popular. Virtually everybody wants young women to be successful, so
the traditional characteristics of femininity - passivity, reticence, assuming men and authority figures are right and that you are probably wrong-are therefore redundant.

Young women have a range of assertive “girl power” role models to choose from in magazine, movies and pop music

Pg64 gender in contemporary movie
[In the past and] today, every Hollywood women is someone else’s other. (1997:3)

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