Magazine editors, objectivity and neutrality
SOURCE: Gender & Media Diversity Journal
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Sanger
KEYWORDS: EDITORS, GENDER EQUALITY, MAGAZINES, MEDIA SECTOR, OBJECTIVITY
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4825
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5848
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5848
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Sanger
KEYWORDS: EDITORS, GENDER EQUALITY, MAGAZINES, MEDIA SECTOR, OBJECTIVITY
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4825
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5848
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5848
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Abstract
This paper explores notions of objectivity, neutrality and the 'political' in the views of South African magazine editors, and how these views relate to their representations of gender and sexuality. It argues, from a feminist poststructuralist position, that the insistence on the objectivity and neutrality of their publications is in sharp contrast to the ways in which a political position is taken in presenting gender and sexuality in binaristic and unequal terms within the pages of the magazines. The presentation of women and homosexuals in these magazines as 'other' exotic erases any claim of objectivity and neutrality.-
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