1940s Texts

The Invisible Women:


This text relates to a women having a job, and then is fired by her boss, a old inventor creates a amchine which makes people invisible and she turns invisible, she then gains revenge on her boss.
This text relate to the Zeitgiest as in WW2, women were doing mens jobs, and when men came back from war, they took their jobs back and womens attitudes had change as they had power and were scary, in this film the inivisible women has power and is scary.

10 Quotes

• Edwards, T . men in the mirror: Men's Fashion, Masculinity and Consumer Society (London, 1997)

'Selfish, Loutish and inconsiderate... He likes drinking, football and fucking, and in that order of peference ... he is that most ghastly of configuration, defensively working class ... defensively masculine'.

• Foucault, M. The History of Sexuality (1981)

'Gender is like fluid and can change within different contexts and over time'

• Stevenson, N. Masulinity: A Risky path to take? (london 2000)

Stevenson states - 'Blokelash Against Feminism'

• Lacey, N. Loaded lads and lasses (1996)

Lacey states - 'Regaining ale dominance due to a diminishing in men's power'

• Angela, and Joyce, Mark and Rivers, Danny (1999): Advanced

'Bra Burning'

• Madonna as the postmodern myth” by Georges-Claude Guilbert

'Madonna and The Whore'

• Horn, John (2006), There’s no place like hell for the holidays

‘hunted down like cockroaches’

• ‘Media, Gender & Identity : An introduction’ David Gauntlett, (2002),

'Men to be the dominant charcters on TV'

• Media, Gender & Identity : An introduction’ David Gauntlett, (2002),

Men were more likely to be more adventurous, active and victorious, whereas women were more frequently seen as weak, ineffectual, victimised, supportive laughable or 'merely token females (Gunter, 1995)

• Media, Gender & Identity : An introduction’ David Gauntlett, (2002),

'Symbolically Annihilated'

Representation of Gender Today

• In 1992-1993, men took 61% of the total number of speaking roles, wit wmoen having only 39% of speaking roles in prime time tv, Then in 1995-1996 the percentage increase to 63% of men having speaking roles and women decreased to 37%.

• In 1992-1993 study found that only 3% of women were represented as housewifes as their main occupation - a massivbe decrease comapre to the 1970s.

• In 1994 the sitcom friends shows that womens and men roles are equal as the sitcom conatisna mixture of males and females.

• Another show tha increases the role of women is 'Sex in the city' this shows increases women's indpendance and includes that male sexual performance is a subject to laughter. This makes men look more inferior to women.

• Representation of gender on TV has changed considerably within the ast couple of decades; Today, female and male charcters are likley to be as intelligent, talented and resourseful - or stupid - as each other, and in this respect - though there may be exceptions - there is 'Equality'.

• Men continue to be dominant in some areas, for exmaple, in the UK, the BBC's coverage of the 2001 general selection was led from the studioauthortive, middle-aged white men.

• Female roles have definetly become more tougher

Representation of Gender in the Past

• According to Gunter (19995) and Elasmer (1999), the wmoen and mens speaking roles in television are a major difference. In the 1950s, 60s and 70s only 20 to 35% of charcters were women.

• Miles (1970s) discovered that there was an equal portion of wmoen and men in comedies, but the gender roles were still to be sexist. In action films only 15% were leading women roles.

• Gunter found that in the 1970s, shows that marriage, parenthood and domesticity were shown to be more important to women than men on television.

• A study by Mc Neil concluded that the womens movement had been largely ignored by television, with married housewifes as the main female role. Also he had found that men were to be found to be dominant charcters and decision makers on TV in the 1970s.

• Men were more likely to be more adventurous, active and victorious, whereas women were more frequently seen as weak, ineffectual, victimised, supportive laughable or 'merely token females (Gunter, 1995)

• Tuchman - Women are 'Symbolically Annihliated', women don't matter much. Also were to be seen as working were portrayed as 'incompetents and Inferiors'.

• Dyer (1980s) In drama the numebr of women in central roles in police or crime series had increased.