Subtle Gender Stereotypes in the News Media and Their Role

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4721
dc.contributor.author	Azzalini Monia
dc.title	Subtle Gender Stereotypes in the News Media and Their Role in Reinforcing a Culture Tolerating Violence Against Women
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines how news media play a crucial role in tolerating gender-based violence by constantly reinforcing ‘subtle’ gender stereotypes. After presenting the institutional background in which media, gender stereotypes and gender-based violence have been studied over the last 30 years, subtle gender stereotypes are defined as those stereotypes that are less evident than the obvious ones and are not usually correlated to gender violence. Nevertheless, they can be detected in the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the news, as measured by the GMMP (Global Media Monitoring Project), which is the longest and most extensive study on the representation of women in news media.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni del Comitato Unico di Garanzia dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-29
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-479-0/subtle-gender-stereotypes-in-the-news-media-and-th/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/012
dc.identifier.issn	2724-4652
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-5713
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-479-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-478-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Gender
dc.subject	Gender
dc.subject	Global Media Monitoring Project
dc.subject	Global Media Monitoring Project
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Media
dc.subject	Media
dc.subject	Stereotypes
dc.subject	Stereotypes
dc.subject	Violence
dc.subject	Violence
dc.subject	Women
dc.subject	Women

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Subtle Gender Stereotypes in the News Media and Their Role in Reinforcing a Culture Tolerating Violence Against Women

Monia Azzalini Osservatorio di Pavia; Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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This paper examines how news media play a crucial role in tolerating gender-based violence by constantly reinforcing ‘subtle’ gender stereotypes. After presenting the institutional background in which media, gender stereotypes and gender-based violence have been studied over the last 30 years, subtle gender stereotypes are defined as those stereotypes that are less evident than the obvious ones and are not usually correlated to gender violence. Nevertheless, they can be detected in the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the news, as measured by the GMMP (Global Media Monitoring Project), which is the longest and most extensive study on the representation of women in news media.

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Dec. 29, 2020

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Keywords: Italy • Stereotypes • Women • Media • Global Media Monitoring Project • Gender • Violence

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