Gossip Girl, And Post-Feminism In The TV Show Gossip Girl

Furthermore, in spite of women gaining independence they started to shock society by their rebellious fashion styles and attitudes. Their rebellious attitudes were shown mainly through fashion choices: hemlines got raised, more jewelry became worn, makeup got heavier and hair became shorter.1 According to the 1920’s Vanity Fair, these magazines allowed people to stay updated on Women’s Suffrage and fashion ideas. In the light of, 1920’s Vanity Fair, many of the images shown were of women’s fashion which consisted of ‘Flappers’ who were the progressive, sexually liberated woman of the 1920’s.45

However, despite following a typical film social stigma, Gossip Girl’s popularity has been off the charts for many reasons, including the fact that it is relatable. Entertainment Weekly awarded the series its highest grade of “A”, while the New York Magazine designated "Greatest Teen Drama of All Time" to Gossip Girl, as well as naming the series as "Best Show Ever" in 2008. In 2009, Rolling Stone named the series as "TV 's Hottest Show.” Gossip Girl had people hooked throughout its six season for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it provided an outlet for entertainment and it satisfied people’s wealthy and superficial fantasies without the guilt. Mary McNamara of the LA Times fell for "the leggy glamour of it, the pretty rich girls at cocktail parties, the rumpled sexiness of those school uniforms, the gothic romance of stone-mansioned New York".

Dance Moms, in its fourth season on Lifetime, a channel whose main demographic is women, featuring dance studio owner/dance teacher Abby Lee Miller, is the flagship “maternal television” program to be examined in this paper. Abby is famous for the pyramid, a system in which she ranks her favorite dance students (top of the pyramid) and least favorite (bottom) directly in front of the students and their mothers. These three groups of females, particularly the mothers and Abby, are in constant negotiation with another as they fight for a place at top of the pyramid and this paper theorizes the techniques and reasons for their power negotiations.

They were born in great numbers and as a result became the most powerful group of consumers. Advertisers soon set the guidelines to what material commercial products every girl needed to obtain her status in society. Women’s roles on television gradually changed from perfect housewives to mystical genies and witches with power, but somehow they always subdued their power to please their men. In the background women were fighting for equal rights and equal pay, but the media portrayed these protests as isolated events and acts of extremists. The newscasts attempted to label feminists as women who protested against being exploited and “looked at” by exploiting themselves and secretly wanted men’s attention by these protests. Television did respond by developing a new “tougher” woman, but made her success dependent on her attractiveness and sexuality. The media’s simultaneous promotion and containment of the women’s movement left the young women of the seventies exposed to what Douglas refers to as social schizophrenia (9). Feminist were now rejecting cosmetics and other marketed ploys that contributed to the oppression of women, leaving industries that were primarily focused on women’s “needs” struggling to address this while maintaining their market. Mass media encouraged and exploited commercial androgyny with unisex fashions and Madison Avenue promoted a new “natural look” that was anything but natural. This look promoted a Lolita image that

Have you ever been told you can’t do something because of your race or gender? Odd are you have and tried to prove them wrong, if so you are not alone. People in the 1950’s - 1970’s had taken and challenged this question. The television sitcoms “The Donna Reed show” and “Sanford and Son” reflect and represent the racial changes and the gender roles in America between 1950s and 1970s.

The chapter, From Rosie to Lucy, by James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, is about how the feminine mystique changed drastically from the era of WWII to the era of the baby boom. The shift was attributed to men’s influence on the women through fashion trends, magazines, and TV shows. The main purpose of the chapter is to show that the propaganda through TV and society affected individuals, and more specifically the feminine mystique.

The show gossip girl has been called the best teen drama ever made. However, there are many people who say that they don't understand why gossip girl went on for as long as it did. That being said it is based on the novels gossip girl. Which is based on an Elite privet school on the upper east side of Manhattan whose students are less than citizens of the year. The show gossip girl is about a mysterious blogger who exposes the main characters any time they have a secret. In the show the blogger is called gossip girl and she runs everything if gossip girl doesn’t write about you then are you even alive. However, gossip girl has a few favorite victims, those being the main characters such as Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Chuck Bass, Nathaniel Archibald, and Dan and Jenny Humphrey. All of the main characters are children of the elite and live on the upper east side except for Dan

In the recent history, feminism and pop culture have become more closely entwined than ever before. This can be partially because of the growing interest in culture studies as an academic discipline, but it can also be explained by the fact that, there’s a whole lot more popular culture to watch. Pop culture has become our common language, a universal way of uniting the world. Pop culture is also a key route to making the concept of feminism both resonant and relatable. In this paper, I am interested in the relationship and connections between pop culture’s representations of women and girls and the depiction of feminism through the lens of pop culture. There’s a

In the movie Mean Girls, released in April of 2004, you see the traditional story about the new girl in school and the stereotypes that engulf the adolescent environment. Cady Heron, played by Lindsay Lohan, shows us what life at a corrupted school could be like for teens that are not so familiar with the American ways of socialization and "surviving" the potentially threatening lifestyle it could lead on. Sadly, children succumb to it as a result of a dire need to fit in. In the film, we're first introduced with the impression that high schoolers and the staff are super strict and have no sympathy for the new students. As it subtly resembles almost a

The book Queenbees and Wannabees inspired Tina Fey to create a film which soon became Mean Girls. Fey called and pitched her idea to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels who then contacted Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures then bought the rights to the book. Although the book was nonfiction Tina Fey wrote the plot based on her own high school experiences. As far as casting goes Lindsay Lohan first read for Regina George but feared that the "mean girl" would ruin her reputation and the producers also saw her better fit for the part of Cady.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and see to what extent women have been depicted within typical stereotypes, how they have been objectified and only seen as a sexual sell, and what consequences and effects these depictions can have on both the female and male audiences. The analysis is over two decades where major social changes underwent. The time after the war, being a housewife and mother was heavily implemented. Whilst after a decade, women started to step away from what was considered the norm, what was considered the ideal life. They started to fight for a better future for themselves, and a life free from their husbands ruling hand. I have chosen visual analysis of magazine front covers as my method because magazines were a major resource for both women and men at the time, it was one of their sources of information about what was going on around them. Front covers often represent the magazine or the audience it is meant for, and

During the period after World War II, there was a shift in the role of women from the private sphere to the public sphere. Namely, at the turn of the 1960s, the concept of the nuclear family was becoming less of the norm as many women began to fight more and more for their rights and the way in which they were to be portrayed. For many years, women have been made to believe that they must follow certain expectations such to fit into the “American ideal” of what the role of a woman should be. For example, according to the Redstockings, contests like Miss America perpetuate the idea that women must be “inoffensive, bland, [and] apolitical” and that “conformity is the key…to success in our society.” The sentiment expressed in the quotation,

However, when a few steadfast women publicly demanded equality for the sexes, the feminist movement began. (Archer 2). The women became known as suffragists, and the believed women could have important roles outside the home (Giele 117). They pressured for women's entrance into the public sphere and for equal opportunities (Giele xi). However, their efforts were belittled by men who feared for their status. The men discredited the women’s femininity by calling them mannish (Giele 129) but still exploited their bodies in the media (Archer 15). In order to take control over women's representation, feminists started wearing “bloomers” instead of the restricting and confining skirts (Jules 7). By 1989, women started getting even more positive images in media with TV show sitcom heroines. Roseanne, an overweight, funny, working mother, captured her audience by yelling, “I am a women. Hear me roar!” (Archer 18). Society has advanced considerably since then, but woman and girls still search for positive influential role models in the media to disrupt the notion that men are superior to women.

In this movie, there are some scenes which reflect the feminism theory. The first scene is when Warner told to Elle that he want break up with her. The reason why Warner want to break up is because he is a blue-blood family which never marry women blonde. It seems that Warner always see a blonde women has a lower position than his family. This scene is reflect Foucault theory about the body as a power. He argues that;

This paper will be presenting a position paper focusing on the debate whether we are living in a post-feminist period in which gender is no longer a major barrier to equity. The paper will utilise feminism theory through use of article to create an argument to support this debate. It will also incorporate some compelling case justifying the researcher’s position.