Classwork and homework - 6/10/16

Classwork for today and homework: be prepared to share your notes on Monday.

Task 5 :  POST-FEMINISM

Do you agree with the argument that feminism is no longer necessary?

Use the internet to research women’s pay and the number of women in positions of power in Parliament, the judiciary and in top paid jobs.

What role do you think the media now plays in making certain roles, jobs and attributes seem ‘natural’ for women?

Find some textual examples to support your points.

Task 6 :  Judith Butler (1999)

A contemporary approach to gender representation has been introduced by Judith Butler (1999).

Carry out some research into her study – what are her key findings?

How does her approach differ from some of the other perspectives you have looked at?

Butler refers to ‘gender trouble’. What does she mean by this? Give some examples to support your answer.

Homework

Choose any short example of The Male Gaze and analyse how the man appears to have the power and the woman is portrayed as a sexual object for him.

Please hand this in for marking on Monday. Reference the YouTube link.

Column on representations of women in advertising

Some interesting videos in this:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/28/hm-advert-diversity-ad-women?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Another interesting article on pay equality

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/24/gender-pay-gap-wont-close-until-2069-says-deloitte?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Homework - 22/9/16

Research the way contemporary feminists express their views online and how others respond to them. Bring evidence and be prepared to discuss it on Monday.

A link that might be a helpful starting place. The Guardian have done loads on this including a huge campaign of their own:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/25/yvette-cooper-leads-cross-party-campaign-against-online-abuse

Homework for this week

Please complete the following two tasks, started in class, and be prepared to discuss them first lesson next week. You can work in pairs if you want to, but you both need to have written responses:

Task 1 : Fact Finding

One of the first groups to draw attention to the politics of representation in the media were the feminists of the late 1960s and 1970s, who pointed out the limited range of representations of women in the media.

What were their key arguments about the representations of women in the media, and the impact this had on the perception and role of women in society?

Task 2: Feminist Theory

Laura Mulvey’s (1975) influential work ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ argued that mainstream Hollywood film was the product of a male-dominated and controlled industry.

What films formed the basis of her research?

What were her findings?

Explore what the following terms mean :

Voyeurism

Narcissism

Scopophilia

Year 13 Homework

Welcome Back everyone.

As I said in the lesson, we are going to be working on Media and Collective Identity for this term and specifically on representations of women in the media. Please complete the following task for Monday and be prepared to discuss it:

Identify two representations of women in the media, one positive and one negative. Write at least 400 words for each on the following:

• what the representation is
• how it was created
• what your own opinion is on it

Due Monday 12th September.