COMM 101 Lecture Notes - P.M. News, Copyleft, Web 2.0
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1970s feminists charge that women on tv are: virgin/whore binary, symbolic annihilation: the systematic underrepresentation of a particular group/groups/media representations that favor stereotypes and omit realistic portrayals, representations of women"s work, most women do not work outside the home, secretaries, nurses, teachers (subordinate to men, representations of women"s sexuality and the look , women"s sexuality is for men to enjoy, not the women herself, signaled in media by the look , representations of women"s bodies, often cut up, thinness ideal: women have always been told to keep their bodies under surveillance. Racism: the idea that these outward differences indicate inner differences; the stigmatizing of differences along the lines of racial characteristics in order to justify advantage or abuse of power, whether economic, political, cultural, or psychological : people can be objectively divided into races, can"t find race in dna, a lot of people can"t tell the differences between people of different races , racial categories change over time.
