Media Studies A-Level
Historical and cultural contingency of gender
What Historical and cultural contingency of gender means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Historical and cultural contingency of gender
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Gender is produced within particular social and cultural conditions, at a particular time, and is therefore open to change.
Topics that use Historical and cultural contingency of gender
- Theories of gender performativity - Butler's ideas and theories on gender performativity (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Gender performativity
- Naturalisation in media representation
- Stylisation and cultural convention
- Constructed versus naturalised gender
- Gender as constructed rather than essential
- Parody and hyperbolic repetition
- Repetition and citation of norms
- Repetition and the production of identity
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