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Representation of Woman                                                                                          Taylee Hunter Advertisement 1 Woman's place in the home- wife and mother The role of women in the 1950 was repressive and constrictive in many ways. Society placed high importance and many expectations on behavior at home as well as in public. Women were supposed to fulfill certain roles, such as a caring mother, a diligent homemaker, and an obedient wife.  The perfect mother was supposed to stay home and nurture so society would accept them. A diligent housewife had dinner on the table precisely at the moment her husband arrived from work. A wife was a "good" wife only if she carried out her man's every order and agreed with him on everything. Woman don't make important decisions In society men were seen as more dominant and their opinions mattered the most. This was due to the lack of education a woman received, as society wanted most woman t

structuralism  1. Symbolic -  Human are in the middle of reality and and ideas and the make sense of them both. Used to distinguish betweeen the real and the imaginary.  The relationship between   idea   and   reaility  expr ess the transcendent point of the real and the imaginary in to pentrating unite. For example Plato's analogy of the cave the humans are symbolic as they are between reality and imagery. 2-  Local or Positional   -  So how we interpret  symbol change. on one side we have reality. structure of interrelated positions. Structure of inter-related positions of roles which constantly reflecting each other creating each time different possible scenarios 3-  Difference -   Humans are senstive to change in our lives we often experience Pattern Discrepency  Border- Is their relation to difference       4- The status of structures -  Ideal but not abstract. Structures are real but not actual ideal without being abstract. For example money,

TASK 4 - Make a Thought Shower/ Mind Map of at least 10 Magazine conventions - eg, things we would expect to see in a magazine, such as a cover image etc. TASK 5 - MAJOR TASK - Complete the attached reading 'Reading Between the Lines: An Analysis of Women’s Magazines' and answer the analysis questions below. Analysis Questions 1.       When was the first womens’ magazine formed and what was it called? The first British women’s magazine founded in 1693, The Ladies’ Mercury. 2.       Does the author enjoy the photographs in Vogue or not? Find a quote to support your position. No the author is not entirely keen on the fact that certain magazines can have effects on woman, as they are portraying woman to be a certain body type and have a flawless appearance. This may have negative affects on woman as they try aspire to be like photo shopped models which is not reality.  " The downright worship of materialism in certain magazines is soul-crushing. The