Course Description

At the core of the course is the question how feminism has become a demonized and ridiculed “F-word” in an age when issues of gender and sexuality are at the center of constant, often explosive political debates. These debates often connect media representation and political representation but tend to do so in simplistic ways that bypass or distort decades of sophisticated feminist theory and practice. We will trace back such representations through the decades around case studies that encompass film, video, television and new media practices. The case studies come from the United States and beyond, taking into full account the global interconnectedness of media production and consumption as well as the transnational travel of feminist ideas. The main goal of the course is to evaluate how useful feminist thinking is to understanding the relays between media and political representation; and to develop a lasting critical apparatus to analyzing the politics of gender and sexuality in the media.


Saturday, December 7, 2013

Representation of Women in Media

While searching the internet I came across this video which shows negative representation of women in the media. While I just saw someone has already posted this video on the blog, i still think it's important to discuss as it directly relates to our class and my term paper. While so much progress has been made in society and in media including characters like Olivia Pope and Carrie Mathison, females are continuing to be sexualized in the media. In my paper I discuss how women are able to be more sexual on screen than the were able to in the past, however in recent media females are taking it to the next level as demonstrated in this video. Also, this video briefly touches on when a woman voices her opinion and defeats a man in an argument, the woman is told she is hysterical and needs to calm down. This reminded me of the "Mad Woman" presentation in which all powerful woman in television shows are represented as crazy, mad and hysterical.

https://www.thisispersonal.org/how-media-failed-women-2013?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_term=fb_20131206_how-the-media-failed-women-in-2013&utm_content=womens-interest&utm_campaign=this-is-personal&s_src=ThisIsPersonal&s_subsrc=fb_20131206_how-the-media-failed-women-in-2013
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