Gender Identity Media DOCUMENTARY

Here's a documentary for AS and A2 about the media effects on Feminine Gender Identity, it's quite famous among the sort of people who watch this kind of thing...

Killing Us Softly 3
Jean Kilbourne continues her groundbreaking analysis of advertising’s depiction of women in this most recent update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series. In fascinating detail, Kilbourne decodes an array of print and television advertisements to reveal a pattern of disturbing and destructive gender stereotypes. Her analysis challenges us to consider the relationship between advertising and broader issues of culture, identity, sexism, and gender violence.

Watch it here!


Or the updated version 'Killing Us Softly 4' (2010) parts 1 and 2:

part 1

part 2

If you need an incredibly basic introduction to the topic of Gender Socialisation, there's a seven minute youtube video made by a child here...

Gender Socialisation

Here's a website that collects resources and whatnot on MEDIA and IDENTITY

Click here, chumps!

Here's some BBC ARCHIVE films about FEMINISM and the Feminist Movement, changing ideas about the role and status of women in Society. The 'Pussy Cat Club' clip is worth watching...

BBC Archive - Feminism