Gender representation in the media

... Gender representation in the media Hannah Taylor It is undeniable that the media shapes our conceptions of what it means to be male or female. We encounter many different male and female representations in the course of a day's media consumption. I will now look at the different ways that each gender is represented and the ways in which their messages can be interpreted by an audience and shape identity, with particular significance on the ideal man and woman. Feminism has been recognised for more than 30 years and the changes that have occurred in society have been amazing. Yet media representations of women remain worrying. Does this reflect that the status of women hasn't changed or that the male dominated media does not want to accept it has changed? Representations of women in the media tend to highlight the following: beauty- with narrow conventions, size- again with narrow conventions, sexuality,

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