Feminist and gender theory: blog tasks


1) What are the two texts the article focuses on?
Pan Am, first broadcast on ABC in 2011, is a period drama set in the early Sixties focusing on the lives of pilots and stewardesses working for the Pan American World Airline. it states within the magazine that "it was the promo for the new series, Pan Am aired on BBC 2 using destiny child. 
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2) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
within the magazine cover  Pan Am stewardesses are highly constructed and mediated, an “image whose purpose is to be admired and aspired to by women by showing these images its also influencing them to be like the same and follow these representations. on the other hand this is  an enjoyment for the male Audience which suggest that this is what they see in women and they have to live up to these expectations. furthermore as this is visually enjoyed by men. which suggest and shows that the females where in the cover as the preferred readers were men and according to the airline, 

3) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form? when looking back at the Everyday sexism project it proves that at a point of time it will be a thing of the past; Overall i do believe that it will become a thing of the past to the fact that the success stories shews the evidence of everything that suggest that vast amount have changed since the begging of the everyday sexism project. Overall as we are now seeing many more women fighting back as they are sick and tired of the "cat calls" therefore women began fighting back and allowed them to build a foundation which is yet to change in the future. 

4) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.
Feminism- A movement that is aimed at definition used when defending women's rights.  
Nostalgia – A sentimental longing for the past, often only remembering the positives of the time.
Patriarchy – An ideology that places men in a dominant position over women.

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