Critical perspectives on gender – Liesbet van Zoonen -Overview & Prep for Assessment Lesson 1, Term 2
Gender construction and context; “to-be-looked-at-ness” and the gaze, patriarchal ideology, construction of representations through codes.
‘[There is] a depressing stability in the articulation of women’s politics and communication . . . The underlying frame of reference is that women belong to the family and domestic life and men to the social world of politics and work; that femininity is about care, nurturance and compassion, and that masculinity is about efficiency, rationality and individuality.’ – Van Zoonen
Van zoonen table: Women Men Marginalised (or absent) Efficient Domesticated Rational Sexualised Individual Emotional Intellectual Nurturer (domestic sphere) Public sphere
Van zoonen Argues that there is a “variety of feminist Discourse” and identifies 3 distinct perspectives • Read the paragraphs from Van Zoonen’s essay “Feminist Perspectives on the Media”.
Pages 33 - 37, Feminist Perspectives on the Media in Mass Media and Society (Curran and Gurevitch) Arnold (1996) –available via following link:
• What does she suggest are the key differences between a: liberal feminist perspective? radical feminist perspective? socialist feminist perspective?
Final key points on Van Zoonen:
1. gender is constructed and that its meaning varies dependent on cultural and historical context. Essentially, the mass media is keen to promote the hegemonic patriarchy and does so-consciously or otherwise. 2. She suggests that masculinity as well as femininity is constructed – and that the codes used to construct men ‘as a spectacle’ are different. 3. Masculine representation:
males constructed through movement (active) • silence and impassivity • strength, muscularity and aggression • competition – males as gladiators or combatants – ‘the spectacle’ • constructed more through the intradiegetic gaze – the way they are looked at by other characters (e.g. with respect/fear) • allows narcissistic identification without erotic gaze
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Critical perspectives on gender – Liesbet van Zoonen -Overview & Prep for Assessment Lesson 1, Term 2
ReplyDeleteGender construction and context; “to-be-looked-at-ness” and the gaze, patriarchal ideology, construction of representations through codes.
‘[There is] a depressing stability in the articulation of women’s politics and communication . . . The underlying frame of reference is that women belong to the family and domestic life and men to the social world of politics and work; that femininity is about care, nurturance and compassion, and that masculinity is about efficiency, rationality and individuality.’ – Van Zoonen
Van zoonen table:
Women Men
Marginalised (or absent)
Efficient
Domesticated Rational
Sexualised Individual
Emotional Intellectual
Nurturer (domestic sphere) Public sphere
Van zoonen Argues that there is a “variety of feminist Discourse” and identifies 3 distinct perspectives
• Read the paragraphs from Van Zoonen’s essay “Feminist Perspectives on the Media”.
Pages 33 - 37, Feminist Perspectives on the Media in Mass Media and Society (Curran and Gurevitch) Arnold (1996) –available via following link:
https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2009/GEN125/um/Zoonen-Feminist_Perspectives_on_the_Media.pdf
• What does she suggest are the key differences between a:
liberal feminist perspective?
radical feminist perspective?
socialist feminist perspective?
Final key points on Van Zoonen:
1. gender is constructed and that its meaning varies dependent on cultural and historical context. Essentially, the mass media is keen to promote the hegemonic patriarchy and does so-consciously or otherwise.
2. She suggests that masculinity as well as femininity is constructed – and that the codes used to construct men ‘as a spectacle’ are different.
3. Masculine representation:
males constructed through movement (active)
• silence and impassivity
• strength, muscularity and aggression
• competition – males as gladiators or combatants – ‘the spectacle’
• constructed more through the intradiegetic gaze – the way they are looked at by other characters (e.g. with respect/fear)
• allows narcissistic identification without erotic gaze