HREQ 1900 Lecture Notes - Softcore Pornography, Analog Science Fiction And Fact, Heterosexism

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1900
• Professor: Nadiah Habib

Document Summary

Lecture # 10: fetishizing the body in the media. The media do not produce the dominant ideology, but rather. - reflect our dominant ideologies back to us. - cause the dominant ideas to circulate and mutate. The media reflect cultural practices and as a result sustain values and ideas about gender. The media reproduce cultural views of gender in individuals. The media are gatekeepers of information and images. Advertising [comes to us through a wide variety of media and media use] Radio, tv, film, print media, internet, social media etc. 3. minorities are underrepresented [ problematize minorities] men and women are portrayed in stereotypical ways that reflect and sustain socially endorsed views of gender. Depictions of relationships between men and women emphasize traditional roles and normalize violence against women. The invisibility of images of older people [particularly women] Ideas about men and women circulate in society through their presence and through their absence.