Images of aging: how brazilian media represents middle-aged women

Authors

  • Maria Luiza Martins de Mendonça Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/c&i.v14i2.22450

Keywords:

Women. Aging. Media. Representation.

Abstract

If throughout their life women and men are that not only different but unequal, we may suppose that women age differently and have to face structural disadvantages and discrimination accumulated in their lifetime. “Middle-aged” men are given attributes that are unrelated to their physical appearance, as maturity, charm, power, financial success. On the contrary, a woman is always expected to be youthful, beautiful and sexy. The importance of a permanently young and well-modeled body can be seen also as marketing strategies present in media productions which influences the construction of representations, images and women´s own subjectivity.

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Author Biography

Maria Luiza Martins de Mendonça, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)

Doutora em Comunicação e professora na Faculdade de Comunicação e Biblioteconomia (FACOMB) da Universidade Federal de Goiás.

Published

2013-02-07

How to Cite

MENDONÇA, M. L. M. de. Images of aging: how brazilian media represents middle-aged women. Comunicação & Informação, Goiânia, Goiás, v. 14, n. 2, p. 139–153, 2013. DOI: 10.5216/c&i.v14i2.22450. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/ci/article/view/22450. Acesso em: 24 nov. 2024.

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