Monday, October 4, 2010

Websites for catalogue



Catalogue:
Representation of Women in Fashion Magazines

1. Look Magazine http://www.look.co.uk/

2. Elle Magazine http://www.elle.com

3. Grazia magazine www.graziadaily.co.uk


Articles written by different people about how gender is represented in different magazines including fashion magazines.

Magazines and gender – bliss, zoo, smash hits and q NEW SEPTEMBER 2007
Stereotypes in magazines – representing gender NEW SEPTEMBER 06
Keeping it real – magazines NEW SEPTEMBER 06
Analysing media language in magazines


A Daily Mail news article about the negative representation of women in fashion magazines.


Article about how fashion magazines negatively influence women to have a thin body.

7. The Fashion Book by Phaidon

8. Google Books: Fashioning the feminine

9. Portrayal of women in Fashion Magazines http://www.kon.org/urc/v5/blaha.html

A student essay on the portrayal of women in fashion magazines with statistics of weight/poses/facial expressions etc.

10. The Extent of Damaging Representations of Women in the Media http://www.articlemyriad.com/9.htm


Book about the portrayal of genders in fashion advertising.

12. Stop Exploiting Plus Size Women, Fashion Magazines” article http://collegecandy.com/2010/01/15/stop-exploiting-plus-size-women-fashion-magazines/

Article about the exploitation of bigger women in fashion magazines and how different sizes are treated unequally as models in the fashion industry.


14. Google Books: The Feminine Ideal

Friday, September 10, 2010

1. Your favourite TV program?
ugly betty
2. Most interesting news story you have come across recently?
3. Favourite film?
the notebook
4. What news paper do you read?
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5. Funniest thing you've seen on the internet?
6. Favourite advert?
7. Most recent book you've read?
A Thousand Splendid Suns for english coursework
8. Most interesting media website?
youtube
9. A cause you are interested in?
british heart foundation
10. Favourite music artist?