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Limited by Language: Words, Images, and Their Effect on Women
Author Info
Welling, Paula C
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400944034
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Ohio University, Studio Art.
Abstract
This thesis investigates the ways that language--both visual and verbal--reflects and perpetuates damaging perceptions of women in contemporary American society. I propose that the words and images we use to describe and depict women help harmful ideas about womanhood and femininity circulate in our culture. The written portion of this thesis, submitted here, contains the manuscripts of three artist books:
Girls Will Be Girls; Gaze, Assess, Adjust; and Words and Images: Women Online.
Though these books address specific issues--dominant male perspective in mediated messages, depictions of women online, and the use of the word girl to refer to young women--they illuminate a broader relationship between our language and the inequities and complexities that American women face today.
Committee
Molly Schoenhoff (Advisor)
Laura Larson (Advisor)
Pages
48 p.
Subject Headings
Design
;
Gender
;
Gender Studies
;
Language
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Mass Communications
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Mass Media
;
Womens Studies
Keywords
feminism
;
gender
;
media studies
;
advertising
;
design
;
graphic design
;
visual communication
;
language
;
sexism
;
sexist language
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Welling, P. C. (2014).
Limited by Language: Words, Images, and Their Effect on Women
[Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400944034
APA Style (7th edition)
Welling, Paula.
Limited by Language: Words, Images, and Their Effect on Women.
2014. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400944034.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Welling, Paula. "Limited by Language: Words, Images, and Their Effect on Women." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400944034
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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