Quotes on women from books:

Female Frontier:

"they were expected to participate fully in domestic duties, whether for themselves, their parents, and other families." pg2

"the common conception...women would become wives and mothers."pg154

"domestic service attracted a wide variety of women." pg 126

feminism, femininty and popular culture:

"male character is presented as doing a favour for his wife by helping out in order to get in her good books, thereby confirming the nation that it is normal for women to be responsible for domestic labour." pg 23

"second-wave feminism is seen as a product of the past." pg1

"romantic love is pathological, she argued:it is love corrupted by the unequal relationship between the sexes and is used to reproduce patriachy...first, love becomes a woman's vacation, diverting her energies from other pursuits. second, a woman's sense of identity and self-esteem depends on a man's valuation of her as worthy of being loved. third, because romantic love makes women economically dependent on men, it is not about mutual vulnerability but female vulnerability, leaving women open to abuse" Shulamith Firestone thought this pg 73

"the romantic narrative also deals with a basic conflict that Modleski claims faces all women-women's goal in life is meant to be getting a husband, but they must not let it appear to be a goal which is consciously or calculatedly pursued." pg 76

media, gender and identity, an introduction.

"advertisers have by now realised that audiences will only laugh at images of the pretty housewife" pg57

"the 1995-1996 study found that men took 63% of the speaking roles." pg 58

"Gunter goes on to show how studies in the 1970s consistently found that marriage, parenthood and domesticity wer shown on television to be more important for women than men (1995: 13-14)." pg43

"married housewives being the main female role shown. women's interactions were very often concerned with romance or family problems." also in the 1970s bit pg43

"Female characters were unlikely to work, especially not if they were wives or mothers, and even when they did, this work was typically not seen on screen." 1970s part pg43

"men were more likely to be adventurous, active and vicorious, whereas women were more frequently shown as weak, ineffectual, victimised, supportive, laughable or 'meerly token females' (Gunter, 1995)." pg43

representation of gender today:

"gender roles on television became increasingly equal and non -stereotyped." pg 58

"women usually got to be love interests and helpers." pg 64

"the 1992-1993 study found that only 3 per cent of women were represented as housewives as their main occupation." pg 58

"women are seen as self reliant heroes quite often today" pg 90

"representations of gender today are more complex and less stereotyped" pg 90

Germaine Greer: "every woman knows that regardless of her other achievments, she is a failur if she is not beautiful." pg77

The Gender Issue:

"women perform 80% of household tasks and they spend nearly twice as much time as men in child care" pg 33

Representing Men:

"men exhibited less emotional distress than women and traditionally solved their own problems, while women were more likely to deal with the problems of others or to need help in dealing with thier own." pg66

"images of 'soft' men were common...designed to appeal to women." pg 71

Working girls, gender in sexuality in popular crime:

"there are only three ages for women in Hollywood:babe, district attorney and driving miss daisy."