Tuesday 9 December 2008

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'

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