Feminist theory: blog tasks
Read Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media ( MM40 , page 64 - our Media Magazine archive is here ). This is a great example of sophisticated media analysis and an indication of the level we want to be writing at by the end of the two-year course. 1) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? However, it seems that at that time, being an air stewardess was not seen as a career for l ife; frequent references are made to finding a husband, one stewardess commenting on Laura’s magazine front cover, that ‘with a face like that you will find a husband in a couple of months’. Critical of these restrictions, like many post- feminist texts the show is aware of feminism, acknowledging the terrible sexism the women experience, and even punishing male characters who behave in a sexist way. 2) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form? in the conclusion it say