Representations of women in advertising
Academic reading: A Critical Analysis of Progressive Depictions of Gender in Advertising Read these extracts from an academic essay on gender in advertising by Reena Mistry . This was originally published in full in David Gauntlett's book 'Media, Gender and Identity'. Then, answer the following questions: 1) How does Mistry suggest advertising has changed since the mid-1990s? There is increasingly employed images in which the gender and sexual orientation of the subject(s) are markedly ambiguous. There's is also growing number of distinctly homosexual images. 2) What kinds of female stereotypes were found in advertising in the 1940s and 1950s? Feminists had been articulating the idea of women having their own plans and careers; but soon after 1945, women were made to feel guilty by warnings of the 'dangerous consequences to the home'. Betty Friedan (1963) claims this led to the creation of the 'feminine mystique': 'the highest value and the o
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