Object of the Gaze, Prisoners of the Panopticum: The Discourse of the Body and Femininity in Romanian Women's Magazines Cover Image

Објекти на погледот, затворенички на Паноптикумот: Дискурсот за телото и женскоста во романските женски списанија
Object of the Gaze, Prisoners of the Panopticum: The Discourse of the Body and Femininity in Romanian Women's Magazines

Author(s): Diana Dămean
Contributor(s): Kalina Janeva (Translator)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Culture and social structure , Social Theory
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: women's magazines; Romania;

Summary/Abstract: Media provide images and figures that spectators can imitate and identify themselves with. These images play an important part in socializing and educating individuals using social and sexual role models (as well as a lot of different positions of the individual) that value certain patterns of behaviour and a certain style, while discouraging any others. This is particularly true when we refer to women’s representation in the media. Media are efficient means for disseminating the dominant discourse of power and for disguising it into a matter of “common sense.”

  • Issue Year: 6/2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 185-206
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English, Macedonian