Hi and Welcome to our blog. The objective of this blog is to attempt to provide you; as consumers of media with a more well-rounded approach in critiquing and analyzing representations of gender.
Representations of gender is an integral part of our everyday lives because mass media is the main vehicle, in which images of bodies are presented to us. The images we perceive are derived from codes of gender that reinforces the interlocking systems of oppression based class, race and gender. But we have been brought up to believe these images are the norm and that it is part of the natural order.
According to the late sociologist Erving Goffman, there is nothing natural about gender identity. They are merely socially constructed categories based on the conventional two sex and gender distinction (2009, pp. 2-4).
Sex: The biological differences and characteristics we are born with.
Gender: Socially constructed differences of sex within culture.
In this blog, we will be taking a look at various forms of media.
-Angus, Duaa & Eric
-(2009). The Codes Of
Gender: Identity and Performance in Pop Culture. Media Education Foundation,
Transcript, Retrieved Februrary 9, 2012, from http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/238/transcript_238.pdf
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