Media Studies A-Level
Gender as discourse
What Gender as discourse means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Gender as discourse
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A set of shared ways of talking about, showing and understanding masculinity and femininity that circulate through media and shape what seems natural or acceptable.
Topics that use Gender as discourse
Related terms
- Audience negotiation
- Circulation of shared meanings
- Construction of the natural
- Gender as socially constructed
- Feminist textual analysis
- Media representation and normalisation
- Power and audience positioning
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