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Rebecca Sullivan
Rebecca Sullivan is a professor at the University of Calgary and a local media columnist and commentator on gender, media and popular culture. She is the author of Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism and Postwar Popular Culture and the co-author of Canadian Television Today. Gender and/of the Media In this talk, I will look at the ways that the media, both informational and entertainment, perpetuate gender stereotypes through its narrative and visual frames. Using theoretical concepts from feminist media studies in the context of some recent examples in political reporting, I will suggest ways of looking and reading the media that exposes assumptions about gender roles and sexual positions. The goal here is to provide some understanding of mainstream media’s industry practices and aesthetic conventions as concerns gender representations in order to suggest alternative ways of media interaction and activism.
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