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What were the stereotypes of women in the media in the 1950s and 60s? |
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- 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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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? |
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- Marginalization
- Trivialization
- Polarization
- Undercounting
- Exaggeration of Internal Divisions |
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An ideology that insists that feminism's goals have been achieved--thus feminism is irrelevant, outdated, a spent force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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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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There are dominant masculinities and subordinate masculinities
--gender based hierarchies among men |
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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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- 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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people inhabit multiple personas, some in conflict
identify with contradiction itself |
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Feminine Mystique
by Betty Fridare |
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- 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... |
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an ideology through which unequal distributions of wealth and power naturalized, a mode of placing cultural meaning on the body |
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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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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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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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Loves his/her station in life, like black mammies or butlers |
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can't really cope with being free--can't hold down a job, not successful as head of the family |
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Militant black, anti-white, anti-society, pro-black |
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Mission in life is to be funny |
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belonged neither in white or black society |
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- 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 |
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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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