Gender representation Key wordsMasculinityFemininity

AndrogynousGender

stereotypesEffeminatePatriarchal

Warm-upWrite down

5 Masculine stereotypes5 Feminine stereotypes

Year 12 Monday 23rd January 2012

Male Stereotypes

Male Stereotypes

Male Stereotypes

Female Stereotypes

Female Stereotypes

Female Stereotypes

Think point

What gender stereotypes are seen? Is the artist challenging any gender stereotypes? What is the moral of the music video?

Think point

Do you think gender stereotypes are built in our genes or do the media manufacture them?

Girl power?

Challenging Gender Stereotypes

Girl power? Do these artists really promote girl power?

Adhere (follow)

Subvert (go

against)

Masculinity- Put these men in order of masculinity. Most masculine to least masculine.

Femininity- Put these women in order of femininity. Most feminine to least feminine

Androgynous

What do you think this term might mean?

Androgynous: displaying both feminine and masculine characteristics and physical appearance

Does Lady Gaga adhere or subvert feminine

stereotypes?

Effeminate

What do you think this term might mean?

Effeminacy describes having traits that are more often associated with traditional feminine behaviour, conduct, style and gender roles rather than masculine behaviour, conduct, style and roles.

Patriarchal Society

What do you think this term might mean?

Homoerotic

What do you think this term might mean?

Concerning or arousing sexual desire centered on a person of the same sex.

Laura Mulvey: The Male GazeA feminist theory that states that the media has a

masculine ideologyWhen men see a woman actor they look “at” her, and when

they see a male actor they look “with” him or put themselves in his place.

When women see a woman actor they also look “at” her, and hence see her through a male “gaze”.