Media Studies A-Level
Feminist textual analysis
What Feminist textual analysis means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Feminist textual analysis
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Analysis identifies the specific textual choice producing an imbalance and links it to the wider feminist argument.
Topics that use Feminist textual analysis
Related terms
- Audience negotiation
- Circulation of shared meanings
- Construction of the natural
- Gender as discourse
- Gender as socially constructed
- Media representation and normalisation
- Power and audience positioning
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