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representations of masculinity and femininity as portrayed in selected `telenovela'

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Date Issued:
1991
Summary:
Latin American television is dominated with locally produced programs especially telenovela. This genre has become very popular in Latin American countries. The popularity of these programs would infer that they would show the ideals of the machismo--active, aggressive masculinity--and marianismo--inactive, passive, self-denying female. These concepts are used within Latin American societies to describe men's and women's normative behaviors. One major problem with these two concepts is their applications to men and women of all classes. An analysis of selected telenovela shows that the male and female characters behaviors are interrelated with class. Class consideration is important before gender polarizations can be defined.
Title: The representations of masculinity and femininity as portrayed in selected `telenovela'.
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Name(s): Nivillac, Mariela Alejandra.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Fejes, Fred A., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1991
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 79 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Latin American television is dominated with locally produced programs especially telenovela. This genre has become very popular in Latin American countries. The popularity of these programs would infer that they would show the ideals of the machismo--active, aggressive masculinity--and marianismo--inactive, passive, self-denying female. These concepts are used within Latin American societies to describe men's and women's normative behaviors. One major problem with these two concepts is their applications to men and women of all classes. An analysis of selected telenovela shows that the male and female characters behaviors are interrelated with class. Class consideration is important before gender polarizations can be defined.
Identifier: 14686 (digitool), FADT14686 (IID), fau:11477 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.
Subject(s): Soap operas--Latin America
Women in television
Machismo
Television programs--Latin America
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