Van zoonen feminist theory

• believes we get our ideas about gender from the media
• believes our ideas about gender change depending on the historical and cultural context
• believes women are often objectified in the media, eg start of 'the killing' episode 1 we see Sarah Lund portrayed in a more sexual manner with limited clothing on her body
• she believes that women are objectified often because we live in a patriarchal culture
• she believes women and men are often represented in very different ways to each other, believes that women are often represented as emotional, nurturing, domestic,
• she thinks many media products confine women to the domestic sphere,
• believes men are often represented as individual, suited to business and politics
• we get our ideas about gender through discourse- communication from the media.
• Believes our ideas about gender change depending on the historical and cultural context
• believes women are objectified in the media
• believes we live in a patriarchal culture
• believes that women are often represented as emotional, nurturing and domestic
• believes that men are often represented as individual, suited to business and politics
• believes men's bodys are represented as 'spectacle'