Images of power and the feminist fallacy
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication
- Vol. 7 (3) , 215-230
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15295039009360175
Abstract
This essay challenges a popular consensus, or mythology, about women's images in contemporary media content and their professional status in contemporary media organizations. It also challenges an explicit and implicit assumption, which has been in place since the 1960s, that changes in media messages and structures would contribute to the empowerment of women in the wider society.Keywords
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