Mary C. Martin and James W. Gentry are marketing professors who address the theory of the media affecting body identity in preadolescent and adolescent females. Then there is Michelle Cottle, a Washington Monthly editor who takes the perspective that females are not the only one affected by media. Issue three goes on to show that there is
Popular magazines tell the truth about sex. Do you agree? Would Foucault agree? Discuss in relations to representation of sexuality in popular magazines and so-called ‘natural’ distinctions between men and women. According to (Williamson 1978), “people are made to identify themselves with what they consume”.
1. According to Rachel Lloyd, what are the risk factors for the commercial sexual exploitation of both children and adults in the United States? Explain in detail. 2. Explain the complexity of choice, as it relates to both Rachel Lloyds elucidation of the choices she made and that young girls make when entering and leaving “the life”?
Megan Delawder Pornography Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility January 19th 2014 Instructor John Meeks Over the years there have been many arguments and debates over the morality of pornography. I believe it is important to identify the definition of pornography. This essay will define pornography as sexually explicit materials, such as pictures or videos, which downgrade women. Utilitarianism believes pornography would have to bring out more happiness than the absence of pornography for it to be moral. With that being said, pornography could be moral if it brought out happiness after viewing pornographic material.
I feel that our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity. I feel that we look at males in one light and females in another, we all at some point expect men to be the ones that are tough, and brave and look at women as being emotional. When it could be the other way around. There are still those who feel that women should be home makers and not working to where men should be out bringing home the bacon. Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to our understanding of sexual orientation?
sexes in the same program. Further, it is likely useful to keep potential perpetrators unaware of women’s resistance strategies, and mixed-sex programs could provide potential rapists with information about what makes women more vulnerable to assault. Single-sex programming, designed for the specific needs of women, is also likely to lead to more participant interactions, feelings of greater comfort, and reductions in anxiety or defensiveness (Gidycz, Loh, & Rich, 2003). Additionally, given the overall rather limited evidence for the effectiveness of mixed-sex programming efforts, we believe that a more fruitful approach is to gear programming toward single-sex audiences. Gidycz and her colleagues have been involved over the past decade in systematically developing and evaluating a risk-reduction program for college women.
The Case for Girls In Anya Kamenetz’s The Case for Girls, she identifies the increase of male to female ratio, and tries to show that we can change society’s view of a preference for males over females. She tries to inform and persuade the reader on why sex-preference is a step back for society. Kamenetz sees this as an opportunity in some way to help influence the people of the world that men and women are equal and capable of the same things. She believes that if the advertisements can work nation-wide, they can also work at a global level as well. Kamenetz uses pathos, ethos, and logos to show that if we invest the time and money, we can change society’s view of the preference for baby boys over baby girls on a global, rather than just a national level.
Sean Hopper Welch ENGL1301-086 15Sept2009 Rhetorical Analysis of Sex, Lies, and Conversation The author’s goal in this essay seems to be to point out differences in the way men and women communicate in an attempt to eliminate a major contributing factor to divorce. She likens men and women’s difficulties in communicating with difficulties in communicating between cultures. She identifies several factors that contribute to why men and women have these difficulties. I feel she identified situations that are seen and experienced in everyday life of men and women and by doing so has helped relationships worldwide. She begins with a real life situation to set the scene for the essay.
Our minds have created justifications to alter these guidelines when they our actions do not measure up to the social norms. Susan Bordo’s essay, “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” focuses on the gender roles society has created while revealing the way the mind justifies a particular sexual way of life. Laura Kipnis’s essay, “Love’s Labors” addresses love and adultery. Kipnis addresses the common way of thinking of why and how cheating is so prevalent in today’s culture. Kipnis goes into detail about the impact love has on our way of thinking.
Introduction to Media Studies 154.101 Assignment One Semiotic Analysis of Gender in Advertising Advertisements exist as a means of selling products by constructing a connection between a brand and a desirable lifestyle or identity (O’Shaughnessy & Stadler, 2012, p162). By providing a semiotic analysis of the press release image for the fragrance “Inverse for men by Kylie Minogue”, the representation of gender will be addressed. This will be done by working through the denotations, connotations, context and ideological messages. By looking into how femininity and masculinity is constructed within the advertisement, the question of whether the ad reinforces or challenges the stereotypes of men and women, will also be answered. The product that this advert is trying to sell to the viewer is obvious due to the placement of the cologne bottles and the text situated on the image.