Gender as socially constructed
What Gender as socially constructed means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Gender is learned, repeated and represented rather than treated as biological, which is why the distinction from sex matters.
Gender is something media texts construct and circulate rather than a fixed biological fact.
Topics that use Gender as socially constructed
- Feminist theories - Van Zoonen's ideas and theories on feminist theory (AQA A-Level)
- Theories of gender performativity (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience negotiation
- Circulation of shared meanings
- Construction of the natural
- Gender as discourse
- Media normalising gender
- Performativity through repetition
- Sex versus gender
- Feminist textual analysis
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