1. Advertising and Its Use in the Shaping of Consumer Gender Identities
... anti female sexism laid. Man's main characteristics were thoughtfulness, functionality and industriousness, while those of the woman where impulse, consumption and just being a desirable decoration. The new, post-modern marketing does not strictly put genders into the strict dualism of the past. It is now observed that consumption is not just a female preoccupation. In current advertising messages, everyone ... is invited to consume. The gender images in post-modern advertising are ambiguous because gender identity is not innate but something that constructed by the individual. Postmode...
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