Women in the media

Women's image in media is a forever changing concept, they have always been promoted as beautiful 'works of art' and in sexual fashions, if they're off 'the right factors.' In this case, predominantly skinny and blonde haired such like Jennifer Aniston.

This image has gone on to be the mainstream 'look for' in women, especially brunettes. However with an ever changing society, people are slowly starting to accept the larger sized women, a controversial decision to some, where you can apply Stuart Hall, in that some accept this new change in society and some just don't.

The first example of a change to women representation was Marilyn Monroe, the 'curvy lady'. Not quite a 'plus size' but it was the best women like her were getting at the time.

This was revolutional for society, however the change still wasn't applied. TV ads still went for the skinny models, impacting on younger people in society wanting them to be something that wasn't. Victoria's secret was verty guilty for this.
They used the skinny models to promote and inspire the younger generation to be like, them which leads to more discrimination against those who arent blessed with bodies such as.

Thankfully for the female image, DOVE released a new advert where they used the larger models in revealing clothes, to show how society has changed and how they should be accepted.

The whole point of this post is to show how far women in the media have come. And that my idea as explained is to present the more un accepted side of women in the media, to follow the changing concept of society and ensure its acceptable to be what ever size you want or anythign is beautiful (however, do not confuse with feminism, im implying despite size, people do find 'larger' women attractive and that they should accept themselves).

By applying this changing concept, It can help me with future research and add an enigma behind the choice of actors, and there I can apply Stuart Hall and his theory.