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Women and Media
This paper acquaints students to media unlearning ways of seeing so as to be able to perceive representation of women in it. It further enables them to see the subtle construction of women and thus be able to not only deconstruct oneself, but also question and change the representations of women in media.
Ways of seeing and representing women in media – News in print-media.
Women’s issues in Media: Education, Dowry, Female Foeticide, Honour Killing and Working Women
Language in media with relation to above mentioned women’s issues
Construction of Women in TV Soaps – I Black and White; II Colour; III Cable and Satellite
Construction of Stereotypical Women in Films, Five Stages of 25 years each or with representative Directors
Objectification of women with reference to Advertisements
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