COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
⩥ Popular Culture. Answer: media disseminated to a mass audience
⩥ Feminism. Answer: there are many definitions of feminism, but
generally it is considered a movement/attitude for equality between and
among the sexes, not superiority of one sex over the other - equality in
all realms of society
⩥ Beauty Myth. Answer: women of all ages who "buy into" the
youth/beauty culture and will engage in many types of beauty
regimens/rituals to obtain or maintain society's standards of "beautiful"
⩥ Madonna/***** Dichotomy. Answer: straddling the lines between
innocence and promiscuity; childlike and innocent but sexy;
women/girls have been socialized to play with their sexuality in this
manner - "look but don't touch" - one icon who set the standard for this
in American culture is Marilyn Monroe
⩥ The Male Gaze. Answer: view of women through the male "lens"
camera/film women are presented in an overly sexual manner in the
media: magazines, films, TV, music industry to appeal to the male gaze