Tuesday 9 December 2008

10 Quotes and Book Reference

1. Feminism, Femininity and popular culture - joanne hallow (2002) "women must no longer be 'enslaved by ludicrous "beauty" standards' (Morgan 1970,586) "

2. The movement for gender equality the world over has been one of the defining movements of our times”. Boutros-Ghali, B. (1996)

3.Bennett,Peter ,Slater,Jerry ,Wall, Peter (2006): A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction, Routledge- uiseful becuase talks about explotation of the working class and 'Ugly Betty' is representing the working class within the sit-com.

4.Price,John,Nicholas,Joe (2003):AS Media Studies,Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes Ltd- useful to my text because talks about fashion as well as giving some narrative theorists and over the top talks about gender representation.

5.Moore,Stephen,Aiken,Dave,Chapman,Steve (2005): SociologyAS , collins- womens role in society and around, also just general information on their roles and theorists that may be relevant.

6.Ross, Mandy (2002): The Changing Role of Women. Great Britain: Heinemann Library- book useful because all about women and how in history till today they've got better and better, and how fashion made women more liberal.

7.Kate Winslet said: "I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real." in The Independent on Sunday size-zero debate: fashion industry is told to 'grow up' By Jeremy Laurance, Health EditorPublished: 22 May 2007

8.Lady Kingsmill ( part of the British Fashion Council, which runs London Fashion Week) "It is time, in a way, for the fashion industry to grow up," she said. "It is a real and a very important industry and the people working within it have to be taken seriously and have to be treated well." again 22 may 2007, independent on sunday newspaper.

9."[It's] not about being ugly at all. More than anything it's just about looking past what you see. Achieving that image is not all that we're on this planet to do." america Ferrera. http://www.pluggedinonline.com/thisweekonly/a0002958.cfm

10.“The American feminist Naomi Wolf ‘the era of the “genderquake”, in which the meaning of being a woman is changed for ever” tlaking about hte 1990's

11.No Turning Back: Gender and Genderquake By Helen Wilkinson (1994)- this book cover's Naomi Wolfe's talk about 'Genderquake', giving a more closer insight into it.

12. Culture and Power: A Media, Culture & Society Reader By Paddy Scannell, Philip Schlesinger, Colin Sparks (1992) - gives an intkae on how media, covers issues that are important in the socirty. it related culture and society issues.

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