As a nation, America is regressing in terms of how females are viewed in our society. Females are being portrayed, and expected to behave, as servants. My research question will run along the lines of how American popular culture promotes this servitude among women. For the purpose of this project I will use the music industry, television, and magazines to represent the popular culture. I will focus on these three main facets of American popular culture in order to prove my theory that popular culture does indeed endorse servitude among its female audience. .
One way in which my statement that pop culture endorses servitude can be supported is by the general theory of control. By glamorizing the idea of being controlled, pop culture is able to convince females that what they desire more than anything is to please men. The music industry, television, and magazines alike do this by showing the perks of serving men. Some perks advertised are the material goods (i.e. clothes, jewelry, and alcohol), while other focus more on emotional advantages (i.e. sense of security). Another marketing tool for being a servant is the common idea, in this patriarchal society, that men hold inclusive rights to females; and why shouldn't they be? "Men have seen girls' bodies in numerous sexy and emotionless displays, in everything from movies to television to advertising they are as inanimate as mountains and exist only to be conquered." (Asher). .
While there are many other avenues available to explore with regards to this topic, those are the two I have focused my research on thus far.
So, now that two the culprit has been identified, why should we care? First of all, over the half of the student body here at Centenary College are females. That makes over half of the student body possible victims of this cultural enslavement. If that is not valid a reason enough, nearly everyone attending this college will once day have children of their own.
One of these women is a character Medea. ... When men have more power than women, they expect more understanding from women. ... He has the views of nurse, who is regarded as a servant, against the views of kings. ... Who would listen to servant? ... I believe that Media is quiet ahead of her time; she is almost ahead of our time too. ...
Women failed to gain the vote before the start of the First World War, mainly because of the failure to change attitudes, both of politicians and the general public, the violent campaigns of the suffragettes and the unwanted negative media coverage. ... However by 1918 attitudes had changed and women gained the vote. ... Many women did not in fact want to work. Upper and middle class women were against women working is factories and as men, for it meant they had to do their own work because their servants went to help with the war effort, but even so the opportunities women took changed attit...
In one section of this paper, we look at how the four female politicians under consideration go about constructing their identities in the public sphere through various forms of media. Mediation could be understood as the process by which a given social system produces and reproduces itself in and through a particular set of media (Mazzarella 2004). ... ["Welcome to the desert of the real", says Morpheus from The Matrix (1999)] While the control over broadcasting facilities has considerable political weightage, the diffused structure of the internet provides a powerful political al...
The phrase "women's rights" refers to the basic human rights that are withheld from women simply because they are women. Women's rights promote political, social and economic equality for women in a society that traditionally confers more status and freedom to men. ... Although women represent 13% of the staff in administrative positions, they hold only 3% of top decision-making positions, such as legislators and upper level public servants, according to the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics." ... Equality between men and women are never mentioned. ... With the support of the Inter...
In defining the role of women in contemporary society, there were distributed the questionnaires among civil servants (which were totally women except of their boss) of the Public Offices of Labour, Employment and Social Securing of a Population. ... The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of women with men. ... Since that moment a second stage, of hidden or indirect brea...
As long as you give a good image, the media and society will accept you as a whole. ... These things include nice cars, nice houses, plenty of money, beautiful women, and pretty much the ideal life. ... Very few black women could have taken the abuse that Naomi took in the movie. ... I believe there would have been many capable black women in the market, who could have depicted the Naomi in the book. ... After receiving her Oscar from being a servant in Gone With the Wind, all of her following roles were those of servants. ...
Attitudes towards women and their right to vote had changed by 1918. ... Women failed to gain the vote before the start of the First World War, mainly because of the failure to change attitudes, both of politicians and the general public, the violent campaigns of the suffragettes and the unwanted negative media coverage. ... Many women did not in fact want to work. Upper and middle class women were against women working is factories and as men, for it meant they had to do their own work because their servants went to help with the war effort, but even so the opportunities women took changed a...
Mammy, the most well known caricature, is still used and seen in the media today. ... She was the house servant who was given complete charge of domestic management" (51). ... For most African American women, they had to give up or neglect their own families while taking care of the white family. ... The caricature of mammy has become increasingly prevalent in the media today. ... Another newer form of Mammy out in the media now is known as a male Mammy. ...
Mainstream media and culture in the USA has characterized people of color as menacing figures. ... (Harris, 2003) Today, young men and women of color are targeted because the criminal justice system needs to keep a potentially volatile section of the working and oppressed classes under control. ... The majority of police officers are hard-working public servants who perform a dangerous job with dedication and honor; however, the perception that some police officers are engaging in racial profiling has created resentment and distrust of the police, particularly in communities of colored people....
