Westwood (1999) - Changing Female Roles

• Westwood completed their studies on Changing Female Roles in the Media in 1999
• Westwood (1999) argued there has been a change in representing gender and uses the concept of transgressive (breaking social boundaries) female roles to describe roles which have gone beyond gendered expectations
• Westwood (1999) uses the concept of transgressive (breaking social boundaries) female roles to describe roles which have gone beyond gendered expectations
• Westwood (1999) uses the concept of transgressive (breaking social boundaries) female roles to describe roles which have gone beyond gendered expectations, such as Agent Dana Scully in X-Files