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Fem, Masc, & Race in the media
Comm 101 Final Exam
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Undergraduate 1
04/22/2009

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What were the stereotypes of women in the media in the 1950s and 60s?
Definition

- Biology is destiny

- All women have built-in maternal instinct

- Women are nurturing, passive, and inherently domestic

- Overly emotional, hysterical

- illogical, not rational

- poor drivers

- bad at math and science

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Symbolic Annihiliation
Definition

the systematic underrepresentation of a particuluar group or groups and/or media representations that favor stereotypes and omit realistic portrayals

 

Women are meant to be looked at

- Men act while women appear

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What are some of the framing devices that were used to cover the Women's Movement?
Definition

- Marginalization

- Trivialization

- Polarization

- Undercounting

- Exaggeration of Internal Divisions

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Postfeminism
Definition

An ideology that insists that feminism's goals have been achieved--thus feminism is irrelevant, outdated, a spent force

 

Thus, sexist images are ok

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Gender
Definition

cultural meanins to biological differences

--men and women are accultured into their gender roles--maculinity and femininity a set of social expectations

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Masculinity
Definition

There are dominant masculinities and subordinate masculinities

--gender based hierarchies among men 

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Hegemonic masculinity
Definition

dominat image of men in action-adventure films and TV shows--a hyper-masculine ideal of toughness and dominance, men defined in relation to power, technology, and aggression

 

- emphasis on the the male body, the musculature and strenth, its ability to withstand torture and kill efficently

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SNAG
Definition

sensitive new age guy

 

 

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"Lad" masculinity
Definition

- Ironic take of masculinity

- Maxim

- marketed through humor

- claims not to be sexist

- claims that women are smarter and better than men

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Fragmented subjectivity
Definition

people inhabit multiple personas, some in conflict

identify with contradiction itself

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Feminine Mystique

by Betty Fridare

Definition

- Stereotypes of women in the 1950s/60s

- Biology is destiny

- All women have built in maternal instinct

- Women are nurturing, passive and inherently domestic

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Race is not a category of nature, it is...
Definition
an ideology through which unequal distributions of wealth and power naturalized, a mode of placing cultural meaning on the body
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Pysiognomy
Definition

We are born with different skin colors, may have different facial formations, eye color or shape, hair--but these have become socially defined as markers of other kinds of difference--emotional, intellectual, psychological

 

- Media has been a source of perpetuating, repeating, and reinforcing racial stereotypes and also a place for challenging them

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Nathan Huggins
Definition
Coined the term "State Negro" to describe the white intervention in the 19th century, of a black character type who appeared in minrel shows
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State Negro
Definition

served to delimit the terms of black identity within popular culture

 

-Theatrical darky

- Childlinke

-Songs were vulgar, stories gross and broad

- Lazy, slow moving, hated works

- Insatiable in his bodily appetites

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The Contented Slave
Definition
Loves his/her station in life, like black mammies or butlers
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Wretched Freedman
Definition
can't really cope with being free--can't hold down a job, not successful as head of the family
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Brute Negro
Definition
Militant black, anti-white, anti-society, pro-black
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Comic Negro
Definition
Mission in life is to be funny
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Tragic Mulatto
Definition
belonged neither in white or black society
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Asians
Definition

- Chinese workers built America's railroads in the the 19th century, rise of the "yellow peril"

- The notion that Asians indelibly alien; threaten economy, bring corruption

- Cast as threat of pollution, threat to nation

- Asian women as docile, subervient to men--but also as ruthless dragon ladies

- Asian Americans as "model minority"--model of successful assimilation

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Mexicans and Latinos in the Media
Definition

Lazy, corrupt, sadistic, dirty

- Unskilled, unsuccessful hordes stealing American jobs

- Yet also stereotype of Latin lover

- Latinas as either impoverished mothers of too many children or overly sensual Latin "Spitfires"

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