The model of a woman we don't want to be

Authors

  • Marta Sofía López Rodríguez Universidad de León - España

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18002/cg.v0i1.3861

Keywords:

género, modelo de mujer, mujer ideal, revistas femeninas, estereotipos

Abstract

On the occasion of the recent celebration of International Women's Day (Worker), the Department of Social Affairs of the Island Council of Fuerteventura invited me to give a conference that would have as a general framework "the image of women in the media .” Given the extraordinary breadth of this topic, I chose to limit it to the analysis of the image of the "ideal woman" proposed by three of the most popular publications among those aimed at women between the ages of eighteen and forty, namely the February issues. from 2006 of Ragazza and Glamour, and the March issue of Cosmopolitan. The keys to this analysis were provided to me by a recent publication by the Association of Young Asturian Women and the Asturian Women's Institute entitled Mujeres de Portada, an exhaustive and highly revealing study on youth magazines from a gender perspective. With that theoretical reference, I made a Power Point presentation entitled “Mirror, mirror. Images of women in magazines for young people,” based fundamentally on a comment in irony about photographs and texts taken from the magazines in question. This is an attempt to put into words what those images tell us about women... who we DON'T want to be.

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Author Biography

Marta Sofía López Rodríguez, Universidad de León - España

Doctora en Filología Inglesa por la Universidad de Oviedo y profesora titular del departamento de Filología Moderna de la Universidad de León. Co-fundadora del Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios de las Mujeres de la ULE, destaca su trayectoria en los estudios feministas y postcoloniales, especialmente en literaturas africanas. Es autora de numerosas publicaciones en ambos campos, así como traductora de escritores como Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o o Ama Ata Aidoo. Su monografía Ginealogías sáficas. De Katherine Philips a Jeanette Winterson (Peter Lang) es su contribución más significativa al campo de los estudios queer, otro ámbito en el que ha trabajado desde hace casi tres décadas.

Published

2006-12-01

How to Cite

López Rodríguez, M. S. (2006) “The model of a woman we don’t want to be”, Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, (1), pp. 205–208. doi: 10.18002/cg.v0i1.3861.