Wednesday 11 December 2013

Gender Representation - Borgen

11/12/13


This is a Danish television political drama that centres around the first female prime minister of Denmark. She is a strong willed, charismatic woman, which isn't stereotypically how women are represented in the media and in different television programmes. She has a lot of power over people and isn't as sexualised as you would generally expect. Despite this, in the clip that I watched, she is wearing high heels and a skirt, which are generally associated with women trying to impress men and look good (which is stereotypical). She is an independent woman who doesn't seem to take orders from men, as she tells several of them to leave her meeting and dismisses their idea to try to get the sympathy vote from the public after a public breakdown. 

 

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