Skip to main content

Representation of Women

By

Representation of women has never been something that I have thought much about. However, I believe that this unit will be a great opportunity to allow me to widen my limited knowledge about this topic. I think that this unit will be very insightful as it will inform me about how women have been portrayed has changed over the years and what hardships they have experienced.

In the past, women have been represented less in comparison to men in media. This could be due to the fact the there was this common mantra/thought that men were more powerful, superior and significant than women. This strong perspective had influenced many negative things on women which degrades women’s values such as the wage gap and employment opportunities. As seen in the advertisement, it portrays how women are meant to be in the kitchen while the man of the family is the breadwinner and goes to work.

 


The increase of women in the media such as magazines, movies and more may have some negative impacts on women, particularly younger women. Whilst having more women represented via the media is a great thing to empower women, it could lead to the misrepresentation of a women. Some younger women hold that vulnerability that deceives them to believe that the women represented in media is what the average and ideal women should look and be like. This can influence them negatively such as losing weight at a very unhealthy level to look like them.

Comments

  1. Unknown7 February 2018 at 03:15

    This was a great blogpost Christie ! I agree with your point about gender portrayals and how media can influence women negatively in our society. It's quite disappointing to see how things like this are still occuring in this present time :')

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

This sounds fun

By
My first thoughts when I read the course name was that this would be a very interesting course for me, since I'm a pretty big feminist ( I mean otherwise I probably wouldn't have picked this course so duh), and that we'd be looking through old texts and artworks, slowly building our way up to the present. However, from what you've showed us so far, we'll be looking at much more than that, and I'm excited to see what it teaches me about the representation of women in more than just modern day times. So far in my life, girls and women have been portrayed as (usually; there are some exceptions) two dimensional beings who are there either there only as the main character's love interest, as some faux attempt at equal representation (in which they don't speak a word), or as a villain. It has been getting much better but there are still many cases where the roles of females was severely lacking or two-dimensional, eg. the majority of women in media repre...
1 comment
Read more

Girl With A Pearl Earring

By
Girl With A Pearl Earring Johanne Vermeers' Girl with a Pearl Earring Painting In the novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" the story rotates around the character "Griet" and her life as a maid for the painter Johannes Vermeers' family, and all the ups and downs of her life working for them, including when Vermeer paints her for his, now world famous, painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Griet comes from a protestant family with three children (Griet (15/16), her younger brother Frans (~14-15) and her younger sister Agnes (~12)) living in the dutch town of Deflt which is shown as a relatively small town. Griets' family falls to poverty after her father is blinded in an accident with a kiln explosion, taking his craft of tile-painting when he is blinded. This means Griet has to go and work for the Vermeers' where the painter needs a maid who can clean without moving anything and Griets parents volunteer her. There are a lot of small...
Post a Comment
Read more

Ideal Women

By
Representations of women have varied enormously throughout history and across cultures, but one thing remains constant, and that is usually a prominent representation of women are those of the ‘ideal woman’.   This is a representation of women that I find interesting as you can find almost anywhere as it can be found in nearly all media we consume today, such as social media platforms, television, websites and advertising from the fashion and cosmetic industry.  An idea of a ‘perfect’ female has been, and will continue to be a constant representation of women due to the fact that many societies function by having high-status figures that act as an ideal way of being, physically, socially and economically. ‘Ideal women’ can be found in many differing forms throughout many different eras and across a diverse range of cultures. These individuals are looked up to by societies usually due to possessing features, traits or characteristics that, in their context, are deemed d...
1 comment
Read more