Research: Gender and The media by Rosalind Gill

Gender and the media by Rosalind Gill

"Relationship between representations and 'reality', and differen understanding of how images relate to individuals' sense of identity and subjectivity."

This suggests that the magazines are completly unaware of how what they write in their magazines are effecting the readers.

"she cares to much about shoes, she is always confined to the domestic sphere, she is always worrying about her looks, or she just wants to find a man and settle down."

These are the stereotypes that the media has built.

"The mother-daughter difficulties of a previous generation's rejection of the housewife" (Brunsdon 2000)

The traditional image of women has been removed, therefore adding more pressure on women to become something more.