Feminist Theories

bell hooks

-The idea that race, sex determine your role in a community 

-The idea that feminism is a struggle to end sexist / patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination

-Inter sectionality - forms of oppression and how they work against a group

"Women are low in the social ladder but if you're black as well you're even lower in the social ladder"

Liesbet van Zoonen

-The idea that women are objects and they are to be looked at by male gaze and be portrayed as a sex object for men.

-Gender is constructed through discourse and its meaning varies according to cultural and historical context.

-Magazines construct many gender representation.

-The underlying frame of reference is that woman belong in the house.