Critical Investigation Task #2 - Academic Research and Bibliography

Levy, A. (2006). Female chauvinist pigs: Women and the rise of raunch culture. New York: Free Press.


"Female chauvinist pigs of today are doing them one better making sex objects of other women and of themselves they think they're brave"

Zoonen, L. (1994). Feminist media studies. London: Sage.

"Feminist have drawn attention to the under representation of women in higher education and as scientists” p14

Branston, G., & Stafford, R. (2002). The media student's book (3.rd ed.). London: Taylor & Francis Books.

"Women were repeatedly represented shown as housewives, moths, home makers while men were often represented in situations of authority and dominance .." p95

Gauntlett, D. (2002). Media, gender, and identity: An introduction. London: Routledge.

“Women are denied a viewpoint” – the all-male cast proves this.

SIGMUND FREUD, attributed, Sigmund Freud: Life and Work 1953

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 1929

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” 

A Work in Progress: A Memoir 2015

“Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.” 

Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

“[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.” 

Lisa Funnell, For Her Eyes Only 2012

“As well as the girls, guns, gadgets we expect from the typical Bond storyline.” 

Lisa Funnell, For Her Eyes Only 2012

“Bond's body becomes an object to the gaze in Casino Royale the reverses an objectifying gaze that has focuses solely on women.”