Abstract

BONAVITTA, Paola  and  DE GARAY HERNANDEZ, Jimena. About stereotypes, violence, and sexism: woman construction on Mexican and Argentinean communication media. anagramas rumbos sentidos comun. [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.18, pp.15-29. ISSN 1692-2522.

Mass communication media are becoming a powerful means of culture production and reproduction since they transmit discourses and ideologies to most part of population through the social representations they insistently present. Some of those representations are the ones related to gender, power relations, and violence with women. This article reviews discourses managed by audiovisual, journalistic, and digital communication media in Argentina and Mexico, by discussing the influence of these media on the creation of ideologies and practices which denigrate women and promote violence against women.

Keywords : Gender; violence; communication media; social representation; women.

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