Hey everybody once again,

Here we are in the last era, the 50’s. This post will again look at representation of women in the media dealing with censorship and how it has affected women. In this post, the covers of Cosmopolitan magazine from the 50’s will be looked at. Here are some of the magazine covers: March 1954, February 1956, February 1957, and March 1959. [All images from http://whosdatedwho.com/].

What will really be looked at in detail besides the image is the text that is on the cover. The representation of women in the 50’s according to Cosmopolitan magazine had to do with being happy, good health, marriage, looks, having manners and morals. The censorship issue, once again, has to do with the media censoring what women should read about and how it would influence them. Life magazine made sure that the influence of their published works would influence, positively, the nuclear family and that their worries consisted of the family only. For example, the March 1954 Life magazine cover warns women that romance can ruin a marriage and what to do to not ruin it. The February 1956 cover forewarns women that an article going over the issue of dental cosmetics and how to make your teeth beautiful is inside. The February 1957 cover tells the public that the there is an article inside about good health and happiness for the family. Finally, the March 1959 magazine has the words manners and morals plastered on the cover. Obviously, Cosmopolitan is targeted towards women readers and the issues mentioned all had famous women on the cover which draws more women readers. The topics of the magazine were apparent topics targeted to women that represented the past modern day woman which had to do with family, marriage, and looks. Therefore, the representation of women in the media in the 50’s had to do with being healthy, looking good, and raising the average American family. In some ways, the representation of women in the media has changed, then, it was purely family and looks, as for now, it is being able to balance a career, beauty, and children. That’s it for now.
~Krystale

Hey,
So I wanted to clarify the 80's post I posted. I know that our topic is focusing on the representation of women and I know after that post, people probably think that it seems more like a men's representation. However, it isn't. It isn't because the way women are represented are also through men. Having a boyfriend, fiancee, or husband changes the way a woman is looked at, and the way the magazines represented the men, change the way women think about men. The pressures of society, portrayed through the media, convey what kind of men women should be with because whatever image is plastered on the cover, is what is considered an ideal man. The man a woman is with changes her representation in multiple ways, specifically, status. So, the media publishing the ideal man changes the way women are represented in society by peers looking at a woman by the man she is with, and if he is considered ideal or good enough. If the woman's significant other is not considered ideal, then the way she is represented in society changes. From the 80's, it was the way he dressed and his face, which was classy, contrasted to current images, which is the body. Hope that clears it up, if there was any confusion.
~Krystale

Hey again everybody,

So now we’re into the 1960’s and I figured the covers of Vogue would be a great magazine to cover. I believe this because Vogue is a widely known magazine to women and mostly women have graced the cover. This post will cover how different the focus of the covers have changed from the 60’s compared to this time era and how it affects the representation of women and censorship. Here are some 60’s magazine covers: March 1962, November 1964, March 1966, and May 1968.

And here are some current Vogue magazine covers: November 2009 and December 2009.

[All images from: http://whosdatedwho.com]. There is an apparent difference between the two time eras of the same magazine. That difference is the 60’s covers is all face and the current covers have the entire body on the cover. For some mysterious reason, the entire body was not commonly photographed to be the cover, just the face. Not only was the face gracing the cover of vogue, but so were the awkward hairstyles. This led me to believe that the media found hair and face important when it came to publishing their issues to the public. When you reminisce on watching 60’s movies and seeing the housewife, the first thing I notice and as well as peers, is that the hair is always nicely done. Therefore, in the 1960’s, the representation of women dealt mostly with focus on the face and how nice your hair could be done. Contrasted to these days, Vogue has the entire body photographed and it is always the ideal body pictured as portrayed by media, skinny. This influences women to believe that to be beautiful is to be skinny. This relates to censorship because in the 60’s the importance of hair and face could be objectionable by many families and emotionally harmful to families who could not afford the necessities to keep up with the trend. In conclusion, the representation of women from the 60’s to now have changed from face to face and full body and a beauty should have it all.
~Krystale

Hey everybody,

I’m back with information from the 70’s. Now, I am really excited to do this era because I found information that I feel is just so perfect for this topic. This post will cover an underground comic magazine and one cover from a magazine called Photoplay. From 1970 – 1991, there was an underground comic magazine called Wimmen’s Comix that involved an all women’s staff that wrote on sex, political awareness, violence, and women’s liberation in a comical way from a women’s perspective. Here are a couple of covers and comic strips.

[Images from: http://lambiek.net/magazines/wimmenscomix.htm]. The magazine cover I really want to take a deeper look at is the issue with the princess and the frog. The frog is saying kiss me and the princess says: can’t see turning a perfectly good frog into a prince. Here, the women’s staff is bringing down the ultimate fairy tale of finding a frog and turning him into a prince by saying that the frog is probably better for the princess than the man. This comic obviously stayed underground for the reason that it brings down the ideal of a nuclear family that people tried to model themselves after and this probably wouldn’t have been on good terms with the public. At the same time, however, this magazine would probably have been censored from the general public because it was around the time era that women were fighting for liberation. This magazine probably stayed underground for remarks made in the comic strips that would have been considered obscene by men. For example, one of the comic strips posted is named “Breaking out” and has a woman that says to a man on her date: how long must I be this mindless or another little girl that is rejected by a boy and responds by using profanity. This comic strip is obviously about women breaking out of their “womanly” shell and breaking the norms and standards of how women should act. This again probably would not have gone well with the general public because it would break the ideals of women on how to act like a lady and could have been perceived as a bad influence on young ladies. The comic strips most likely would have been censored for sure when it comes to the profanity used. There is a list of 7 words that are not to be used, which I will not mention, but one, tits. In one comic strip, the man says tits and he is being arrested for public display of affection and using obscenity around a lady. This comic strip pinpoints how men should speak around a lady and makes fun it, but obviously would have been censored because of the language. Not only does the language make it a candidate for censorship, but the actions the characters do in the comic strip as well. The comic strip that has the blonde and pirate, shows action of oral sex being performed, which of course would have been considered lewd in the media. Therefore, this magazine displays perfect examples of why it stayed underground and why it would have been censored, it brings down the ideals of the American family and how women should act and react towards men and sexual activities. The ideals promoted in the media of the 70’s were to highly promote marriage and children, here is a magazine cover from Photoplay, January 1970 that displays it.

[Image from: http://www.whosdatedwho.com/topic/7965/mia-farrow-photoplay-magazine-january-1970.htm]. The magazine cover contrasts two completely different women, Mia Farrow and Janet Lennon. Janet Lennon’s quote on the cover is explaining why you should be married first then have children to be a “decent woman” and to have “God’s approval”, while Mia Farrow’s quote refers to the father of her baby, as her lover, and why she wanted to be unwed and have a child. The media obviously picked that specific quote from Janet Lennon’s interview to exhibit the ideals for being a “decent woman.” In conclusion, the way the Wimmen’s Comix uncensored their own magazine was with no hesitation because it was underground and not everyone would see it and be influenced by it. In contrast to the issue from Photoplay, they made sure if they were going to show a situation that nobody else should model after, that they would should an ideal situation for other women to model after. Therefore, censorship in this post was practiced by the media itself when it came to promoting ideals of how men and women should behave and live their life to be “decent.” That’s it for the 70’s, when I come back; the 60’s will be present.
~Krystale

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FOR ALL YOU FEMINISTS OUT THERE

Hey everybody,
This has nothing to do with my topic, but while I was researching some things for my topic, this underground magazine came up. I found it really interesting and humorous and it has subtopics about everybody else's topic but in a feminist view. Here's the link and excuse the language. http://www.bitchmagazine.org/  It deals with firing back at the media on topics such as sexuality, gender roles, and children in a feminist view and some really provocative covers.
~Krystale

Censorship

This post will focus on censorship in the 90’s especially with Life magazine. In overlooking all of Life magazine covers, I made an observation. Only two women in the time frame of the 90’s graced the cover of Life magazine more than once.
These two women were Princess Diana and Elizabeth Taylor. Princess Diana graced the cover in August 1992, February 1993, November 1997, and January 1998. Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the cover in February 1992 and April 1997. (All images in this post are from http://www.2neatmagazines.com/life/1990cover.html)

 

 The obvious censorship issue is that women were censored from being on the cover too much. On most of the Life magazine issues if a woman did grace the cover it was with another man, a child, or interrelated with aging, body issues, religion, the miracle of birth, the image of an American family, or their occupation. (The order the image appears correlates in order with the analysis.)

The first two images are of women and their jobs, in March 1990, a female gymnast and February 1996, a female astronaut. In the magazine, the women discuss how hard their journey was and the sacrifices they had to make to accomplish their dreams. In the issues, obviously, the media does well with sheltering women readers and telling women that to accomplish great things; they must sacrifice multiple things and deal with criticism along the way. Almost hindering any thoughts they might have to break away from the average “American Family” life, which is promoted in the media and appears on the April 1991 issue. The “American Family” is clearly stereotyped, promoting a mother, father, and child, with the mother holding the child, encouraging that is where her job lies, with the child. The October 1990 issue does the same. The woman showcases her complete happiness with her child. Here, they deal with interviewing accomplished women, yet making them seem like they suffered to get to where they are, censoring the positives of an independent woman and highlighting being a mother. This is displayed all throughout the 90’s era in Life magazine. They highlight the amazing cycle of being pregnant with a child and being a mother. For example, the December 1993 issue is all about the miracles of birth.

Life magazine also represented women when it came to body issues and aging. The February 1995 issue answered 28 questions about body fat for women and the October 1992 issue addresses the infamous question, can aging be stopped. The image is of a woman whose face is half aged and half young. The magazine addresses the concerns of women becoming fat and aging. If this was not the main concern of women, then these magazine issues and disturbing photographs made it a concern for women. Here, it seems the media censored any other concerns of women, and made obtaining your image an ultimate concern.

Life magazine highly repeated covers of religion to readers. It appeared on the December 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1999 issues. (Pictured: 1990, 1992, 1994.) (1995, 1996, 1999 are unable to be posted, however, 1995 issue has an angel on it, 1996 has the Virgin Mary, and 1999 depicts the scene of the birth of Jesus.) Almost making it seem like anybody who read Life magazine had to worry about religion in their life.

 Life magazine in the 90’s era quietly censored the boastfulness women had about their accomplishments by interviewing how hard their journey was to get accomplish something so magnificent. However, the non censorship they displayed is what really influenced women and what they should be involved in and worry about. These worries were having the “American Family”, children, the amazing process of having children, not getting fat, trying not to age, and being an advocate of religion. It basically promoted the ideal life of a woman, the only time, Life magazine allowed for a fantasy life, was when they interviewed women who could break the norms, the two women who appeared on the cover more than once, Princess Diana and Elizabeth Taylor. These two women were women who did not lead normal lives and were role models for women everywhere. In conclusion, the representation of women in the media in the 90’s were to be the perfect wife for the “American family”, bearing children and religion, and the only women who were exempt from doing so were the women of a higher society in the world, and if you tried steering away from this American life, there would be challenged and roadblocks during the journey.

~Krystale

final proposal

Group 8

Nichole

Ashley

Krystal

Jackie

Jessica

Chris

Proposal

Our Topic is pop-culture. We are going to focus on the representation of women from present day dating back until the 50’s. We have divided this project up into roughly 4 groups. Chris will do our literature review. Jackie and Krystal will work together to look at historical movements that have been influential in the representation of women and the censorship that coincides with that. Nichole and Jessica will be looking at different media outlets. That has been split up so that Nichole will look at sitcoms and magazines while Jessica will focus on movies and music. Finally Ashley will be taking on the responsibility of doing surveys and conducting interviews. This is our basic outline everyone has individually outlined his or her methods and specific proposals below.

Lit Review

For the Lit Review section of the project, it is my job to find articles based on how women were being perceived through gender and gendered stereotypes in the media.  My goal is to be able to keep all articles within a fifteen-year span, meaning 1994 or later, so I can look at trends of study within the area of women being perceived through mass media.  Below is a small list of the articles I will be reading up on. I have given the name of the article, author, journal publisher, year of publication, and a link so you can find and read the article yourself.

The World in Dress: Anthropological Perspectives on Clothing, Fashion, and Culture, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Annual Review, 2004

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143805?prevSearch=%2528Representation%2Bof%2BWomen%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmedia%2529%2BAND%2B%255Bjournal%253A%2Banthro%255D&searchHistoryKey=%24%7BsearchHistoryKey%7D

Contested Images of Femininity: An Analysis of Cultural Gatekeepers' Struggles with the "Real Girl" Critique, Melissa A. Milkie, The Gendered Reader, 2008

https://learn.fullerton.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_634_1%26url%3d

THE VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF CULTURAL PRODUCERS, Maureen Mahon, Annual Review, 2000

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.467?prevSearch=%2528Representation%2Bof%2Bwomen%2Bin%2Bmass%2Bmedia%2529%2BAND%2B%255Bjournal%253A%2Banthro%255D&searchHistoryKey=%24%7BsearchHistoryKey%7D

HISTORIES OF FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY, Kamala Visweswaran, Annual Review, 1997

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.591?prevSearch=%2528Representation%2Bof%2Bwomen%2Bin%2Bmass%2Bmedia%2529%2BAND%2B%255Bjournal%253A%2Banthro%255D&searchHistoryKey=%24%7BsearchHistoryKey%7D

The Body Beautiful: Symbolism and Agency in the Social World, Erica Reischer, Annual Review, 2004

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143754?prevSearch=Symbols&searchHistoryKey=

-Chris

Pop Media

Approach – I will be looking at magazine covers and advertisements as well as sitcoms. My data will range from the 50’s until present day. I will be looking at these media outlets searching to find the way that women are represented and portrayed in these images and sitcoms.

The magazines I will be looking at are Rolling Stone, Life, Playboy, and several others that I have yet to determine. The way I choose my magazines first had to do with a popularity factor. The second determining factor was availability. I originally wanted to do the sears catalogue but could not find them on either the web or in the library. The Sears Catalogue is only available for collectors. I am also deciding if I should do Victoria secret but I have not been able to find any past magazine archives. The other magazines that I am planning to incorporate are Cosmo and FHM. If in my research I find other relevant magazines that pertain to either the past or present I will add them accordingly.

I did an Internet search of top sitcoms of all time and then a search based on era. I then looked up what resources were available to me to do research on. I have picked a few and will determine what is a fair amount of viewing time for each. Most of these shows aired for several seasons with several episodes in each season. The main three shows that I have picked this far to watch and research are from three time periods. The first is the 50’s-60’s, which is when, “Leave it to Beaver” aired (1957-1963). The second is the 70’s -80’s, which is when, “Happy Days” aired (1974-1984). The third is the 90’s -2000’s, which is when, “Everybody Loves Raymond” aired (1996-2005). I may incorporate other sitcoms in my research but seeing as how most episodes are anywhere from 30-45 minutes it is a time consuming endeavor. 

-nichole

Pop Media Part 2

I will be looking at popular movies and music from the 1950’s to the present. I will be looking at the differences and similarities in music and movies to show how women have been represented and if there has been change in women’s representation throughout the years.

I chose movies and songs based on popularity and representation given to women. All songs chosen were number one hits on the billboard chart. Songs I am considering are:

50’s and 60’s

Will you still love me tomorrow –The Shirelles

Stuck on you –Elvis Presley

Pretty woman- Roy Orbison

These boots are made for walking- Nancy Sinatra

Runaround sue-Dion

respect- Aretha Franklin

70’s and 80’s

Venus- Shocking Blue

American woman- the guess who

lets get it on – Marvin Gaye

I will survive- Gloria Gaynor

At seventeen – Janis Ian

When Will I Be Loved- by Linda Ronstadt

Like a virgin- Madona

90’s and 200’s

Hit me baby one more time- Britney Spears

Independent women- Destiny’s child

Promiscuous girl- Nelly Furtado

Genie in a bottle- Christina Aguilera

Always on time- Ja Rule and Ashanti

Unpretty- TLC

Baby got back – sir mix a lot

Gold digger- Kanye West

Movies:

50’s and 60’s

Sleeping beauty(1959)

70’s and 80’s

Pretty in Pink (1986)

90’s and 2000’s

Pretty woman (1990)

Mean girls(2004)

Censorship

So the main group question to recap is the representation of women in the media since the 1950’s. I’ll be looking at censorship within magazines and political cartoons or with what I have researched so far, probably also discussing, the non censorship the media practices when representing women. I’ll be looking at it by eras: the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s. I’ll be working backwards, starting with the 00’s. So to kick it off, here are two political cartoons from the 2000 era. All right, here is the first link http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=5918 . This political cartoon basically puts out there how the daily mom states about how hard it is to be a mom, balancing her kids and her career as well as worrying if the day care is affecting her children. She is being represented as the normal woman in society, balancing her career and children, however, still displaying her emotions of being a caring woman. While the woman continues speaking of her worries, the lazy husband in the background doesn’t seem to care and lets the woman take on all the responsibilities. In this cartoon, the attitudes and worries of women are stereotyped and classified, which is obviously overplayed by the media. What I find even more troublesome, is when the husband obviously confirms he isn’t listening to her, the cartoon ends. Not allowing the woman to say anything back or let him have a piece of her mind. Here, the media still represents, the man being the head of the household although he doesn’t do much, as well as the figure with no emotions and listening ability. The media still represents in this one cartoon, that woman are still belittled by men and by ending the cartoon, making it seem like woman aren’t to speak back to men, as if they are on some kind of throne. The second cartoon link is this, http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=17107 . In this cartoon, it has the height of two adult women. One regular adult woman is average size, while the other adult woman is super short. The adult woman that is super short is said to be the size of a woman in the eyes of the Supreme Court. Obviously, here the media is flat out saying that women still have no say or seen as a person with no say that matters in the Supreme Court. So, overall the two political cartoons display that the media still represents women to be subject to men and their opinions with no say in the subject matter. Obviously, the censorship issue in these cartoons is the fact that the women’s rights are present today and their opinions do matter and not all women are subject to keeping their mouths quiet when it comes to men.

~Krystale

Survey/Interview proposal

For the surveys I plan to have them with 10-15 basic questions that are easy to answer and quick in nature. They'll make it easier to track quantitative research and make up our stats for our project. I'll be sending them out via email, the survey website, and any and all social media I can find.

For the interviews I plan to have only 5-8 open ended questions that help me get to know the real perspective of the people. I'll make them easy to engage the speaker into conversation to form some really good qualitative research. I plan to interview three different groups of people, including grandparents, parents, and peers to get a full spectrum of opinions.

I also plan to do some work on facebook by sending out images and videos and seeing the reaction. I'll post on image of big celebrity women and see what the reaction and comments are. Maybe even send out a picture of Britney Spears next to Marilyn Monroe and ask people what the difference is. I'll also be sending out videos from TMZ and celebrity gossip sites and seeing how people react to those as well.

Overall I feel these three avenues will help me get a good grasp on the public perspective on how the representation of women has changed and hopefully I'll be able to draw some really good conclusions!

-Ashley Loera

Survey Questions

1. Male/Female

2. Age

3.Do you watch TMZ?

4.Do you listen to KISS FM and AMP Radio?

5. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being most, how much do you follow celebrity gossip?

6. On a scale from 1-5, 5 being most, how much do you think the media focuses on what most people would consider personal family issues, when it has to do with celebrities?

7. Who's the sexiest woman in Hollywood right now?

8. What body type of woman do you consider to be most beautiful, a Vogue model, a Victoria secret model, or a Target model?

9. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the most, how desirable do you find women in rap videos?

10. What's the sexiest thing about a woman's body?

12. Two candidates have worked for a corporate office for 10 years, both have had upstanding careers in every aspect and are up for a raise that only one will receive. The candidates are the same in every aspect, except that one is a male and one is a female, which would you expect to receive the raise?

13. Do you feel that women now have an equal opportunity to receive the same salary as a man?

13. Do you think men and women are equal? 

Interview questions

1. How do you think women are portrayed now through our mass media?

2. Do you think it's different from how they were portrayed in the 50's and 70's?

3. Do you believe that our society has become so obsessed with a woman’s image of sex appeal, can you give examples to support your answer?

4. The words "bitch" and "hoe" are big in rap songs. Why do you think women accept these songs with no offense taken?

5. Do you think men and women are equal? Why or why not?

Historical

My main focus will be the representation of women in the women’s movement. I will be touching upon topics such as equal pay, voting rights, women in the workplace, and women’s role during the world wars. I will be discussing the equal pay act of 1970, the nineteenth amendment and how it came to be, how equal opportunity came to be in the workplace and Rosie the riveter. I will place these events in a time line so it’s easier to follow. Once I am done talking about the historical context, I will analyze the roles of women in present time and make connections with the past. So far the information that I have gathered is completely web based, but I will be going in to the library to pick out documentaries. I am sure that the documentaries will give me information that will help my research.

-Jackie

historical focus

My main focus will be the representation of women in the women’s movement. I will be touching upon topics such as equal pay, voting rights, women in the workplace, and women’s role during the world wars. I will be discussing the equal pay act of 1970, the nineteenth amendment and how it came to be, how equal opportunity came to be in the workplace and Rosie the riveter. I will place these events in a time line so it’s easier to follow. Once I am done talking about the historical context, I will analyze the roles of women in present time and make connections with the past. So far the information that I have gathered is completely web based, but I will be going in to the library to pick out documentaries. I am sure that the documentaries will give me information that will help my research.


Jackie

Pop Media movies and music

Pop Media - I will be looking at popular movies and music from the 1950’s to the present. I will be looking at the differences and similarities in music and movies to show how women have been represented and if there has been change in women’s representation throughout the years.

I chose movies and songs based on popularity and representation given to women. All songs chosen were number one hits on the billboard chart. Songs I am considering are:

50’s and 60’s
Will you still love me tomorrow –The Shirelles
Stuck on you –Elvis Presley
Pretty woman- Roy Orbison
These boots are made for walking- Nancy Sinatra
Runaround sue-Dion
respect- Aretha Franklin

70’s and 80’s
Venus- Shocking Blue
American woman- the guess who
lets get it on – Marvin Gaye
I will survive- Gloria Gaynor
At seventeen – Janis Ian
When Will I Be Loved- by Linda Ronstadt
Like a virgin- Madona

90’s and 200’s
Hit me baby one more time- Britney Spears
Independent women- Destiny’s child
Promiscuous girl- Nelly Furtado
Genie in a bottle- Christina Aguilera
Always on time- Ja Rule and Ashanti
Unpretty- TLC
Baby got back – sir mix a lot
Gold digger- Kanye West

Movies:

50’s and 60’s
Sleeping beauty(1959)

70’s and 80’s
Pretty in Pink (1986)

90’s and 2000’s
Pretty woman (1990)
Mean girls(2004)

- Jessica

For the Lit Review section of the project, it is my job to find articles based on how women were being perceived through gender and gendered stereotypes in the media.  My goal is to be able to keep all articles within a fifteen year span, meaning 1994 or later, so I can look at trends of study within the area of women being perceived through  mass media.  Below are a small list of the articles I will be reading up on. I have give the name of the article, author, journal publisher, year of publication, and a link so you can find and read the article yourself.

The World in Dress: Anthropological Perspectives on Clothing, Fashion, and Culture, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Annual Review, 2004

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143805?prevSearch=%2528Representation%2Bof%2BWomen%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmedia%2529%2BAND%2B%255Bjournal%253A%2Banthro%255D&searchHistoryKey=%24%7BsearchHistoryKey%7D
Contested Images of Femininity: An Analysis of Cultural Gatekeepers' Struggles with the "Real Girl" Critique, Melissa A. Milkie, The Gendered Reader, 2008
https://learn.fullerton.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_634_1%26url%3d
THE VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF CULTURAL PRODUCERS, Maureen Mahon, Annual Review, 2000
 http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.467?prevSearch=%2528Representation%2Bof%2Bwomen%2Bin%2Bmass%2Bmedia%2529%2BAND%2B%255Bjournal%253A%2Banthro%255D&searchHistoryKey=%24%7BsearchHistoryKey%7D
HISTORIES OF FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY, Kamala Visweswaran, Annual Review, 1997
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.591?prevSearch=%2528Representation%2Bof%2Bwomen%2Bin%2Bmass%2Bmedia%2529%2BAND%2B%255Bjournal%253A%2Banthro%255D&searchHistoryKey=%24%7BsearchHistoryKey%7D
The Body Beautiful: Symbolism and Agency in the Social World, Erica Reischer, Annual Review, 2004
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143754?prevSearch=Symbols&searchHistoryKey=

Because articles on how women are perceived in media are not too numerous, if you find articles based on or have mention to that particular topic please let me know, as well as if I can expand my research topic to be able to broaden my search for articles.  Also if you find documentaries that I may be able to use in my research that would be great as well.  Since reading 15 articles will be a time consuming task, I ask if you have ideas for me, to get them to me as quickly as possible.  Thank you.

Chris

Pop Media - Sitcoms and Magazines

Pop Media

Approach – I will be looking at magazine covers and advertisements as well as sitcoms. My data will range from the 50’s until present day. I will be looking at these media outlets searching to find the way that women are represented and portrayed in these images and sitcoms.

The magazines I will be looking at are Rolling Stone, Life, Playboy, and several others that I have yet to determine. The way I choose my magazines first had to do with a popularity factor. The second determining factor was availability. I originally wanted to do the sears catalogue but could not find them on either the web or in the library. The Sears Catalogue is only available for collectors. I am also deciding if I should do Victoria secret but I have not been able to find any past magazine archives. The other magazines that I am planning to incorporate are Cosmo and FHM. If in my research I find other relevant magazines that pertain to either the past or present I will add them accordingly.

I did an Internet search of top sitcoms of all time and then a search based on era. I then looked up what resources were available to me to do research on. I have picked a few and will determine what is a fair amount of viewing time for each. Most of these shows aired for several seasons with several episodes in each season. The main three shows that I have picked this far to watch and research are from three time periods. The first is the 50’s-60’s, which is when, “Leave it to Beaver” aired (1957-1963). The second is the 70’s -80’s, which is when, “Happy Days” aired (1974-1984). The third is the 90’s -2000’s, which is when, “Everybody Loves Raymond” aired (1996-2005). I may incorporate other sitcoms in my research but seeing as how most episodes are anywhere from 30-45 minutes it is a time consuming endeavor. 

best of luck to everyone!

-nichole

Representation of Women in Political Cartoons in the Era of the 2000's

Hey everybody,



So the main group question to recap is the representation of women in the media since the 1950’s. I’ll be looking at censorship within magazines and political cartoons or with what I have researched so far, probably also discussing, the non censorship the media practices when representing women. I’ll be looking at it by eras: the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s. I’ll be working backwards, starting with the 00’s. So to kick it off, here are two political cartoons from the 2000 era. All right, here is the first link http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=5918 . This political cartoon basically puts out there how the daily mom states about how hard it is to be a mom, balancing her kids and her career as well as worrying if the day care is affecting her children. She is being represented as the normal woman in society, balancing her career and children, however, still displaying her emotions of being a caring woman. While the woman continues speaking of her worries, the lazy husband in the background doesn’t seem to care and lets the woman take on all the responsibilities. In this cartoon, the attitudes and worries of women are stereotyped and classified, which is obviously overplayed by the media. What I find even more troublesome, is when the husband obviously confirms he isn’t listening to her, the cartoon ends. Not allowing the woman to say anything back or let him have a piece of her mind. Here, the media still represents, the man being the head of the household although he doesn’t do much, as well as the figure with no emotions and listening ability. The media still represents in this one cartoon, that woman are still belittled by men and by ending the cartoon, making it seem like woman aren’t to speak back to men, as if they are on some kind of throne. The second cartoon link is this, http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=17107 . In this cartoon, it has the height of two adult women. One regular adult woman is average size, while the other adult woman is super short. The adult woman that is super short is said to be the size of a woman in the eyes of the Supreme Court. Obviously, here the media is flat out saying that women still have no say or seen as a person with no say that matters in the Supreme Court. So, overall the two political cartoons display that the media still represents women to be subject to men and their opinions with no say in the subject matter. Obviously, the censorship issue in these cartoons is the fact that the women’s rights are present today and their opinions do matter and not all women are subject to keeping their mouths quiet when it comes to men. That’s all for now. There will probably be more to come for the era of the 2000’s because there are still magazine covers to analyze. Any comments or opinions, I would appreciate it. Until next time.


~Krystale

Survey/Interview proposal

We already kind of talked about what I wanna do with my surveys and questionaires, but i'll write it here too so it has the overall effect. For the surveys I plan to have them with 10-15 basic questions that are easy to answer and quick in nature. They'll make it easier to track quantitative research and make up our stats for our project. I'll be sending them out via email, the survey website, and any and all social media I can find.

For the interviews I plan to have only 5-8 open ended questions that help me get to know the real perspective of the people. I'll make them easy to engage the speaker into conversation to form some really good qualitative research. I plan to interview three different groups of people, including grandparents, parents, and peers to get a full spectrum of opinions.

I also plan to do some work on facebook by sending out images and videos and seeing the reaction. I'll post on image of big celebrity women and see what the reaction and comments are. Maybe even send out a picture of Britney Spears next to Marilyn Monroe and ask people what the difference is. I'll also be sending out videos from TMZ and celebrity gossip sites and seeing how people react to those as well.

Overall I feel these three avenues will help me get a good grasp on the public perspective on how the representation of women has changed and hopefully I'll be able to draw some really good conclusions!


-Ashley Loera

Survey Questions
1. Male/Female
2. Age
3.Do you watch TMZ?
4.Do you listen to KISS FM and AMP Radio?
5. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being alot, how much do you follow celebrity gossip?
6. Do you think the media focuses on too much personal information when it comes to celebrities?
7. Who's the sexiest woman in Hollywood right now?
8. Do you like the way the models looks in Victoria Secret catalogs?
9. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the most, how desirable do you find women in rap videos?
10. What's the sexiest thing about a woman's body?
11. Do you feel that women now have an equal opportunity to receive the same salary as a man?
12. Do you think men and women are equal? 

Interview questions
1. How do you think women are portrayed now through our mass media?
2. Do you think it's different from how they were portrayed in the 50's and 70's?
3. Do you think our society is obsessed with a woman's image of sex appeal? Why or why not?
4. The words "bitch" and "hoe" are big in rap songs. Why do you think women accept these songs with no offense taken?
5. Do you believe men and women are truly equal in every aspect? Why or why not?

Deadlines!!!

So our group meeting today in the library is going really well. We've decided on quite a few items as far as what needs to get done by who and when. Just a few reminders so everyone can know:

-Everyone needs to have around 70% of their work done by November 18th. This is a mid month deadline so we can make sure you're held accountable for you work and are getting a good grasp on the topic. We'll meet up that day at a time we decide on to bring all our results and share.

-By 8 pm Tuesday night (11/3) have a proposal on your specific topic posted on this blog so that Nichole can type up the proposal for Wednesday morning. Write up what you think should be in the proposal and how your going to approach your topic/what you have so far.

-Now that we've had a tutorial you guys can start posting on the blog so we can share our info without having to have meetings. Post anything you find, any questions you have, or anything you want to share with the other group members. Were going to try to have 1 post a week for the rest of the project so that we make sure were making use of this communication. Anything helps!

We only got a month to bring this entire project together so weve got alot ahead of ourselves. The mid-month deadline is going to make it easier NOT to procrastinate which im horrible at. Start researching as soon as possible so we can get this done! And dont forget we gotta peer review our entire project so we better keep up with these deadlines together ;)

Good luck!

-Ashley


p.s. to get your pictures up on the sidebar just post them and ill add them to the flickr account, or you can email them to me if theres more than a few you want to add. its too complicated to explain to upload yourself =)