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22 hours ago ago from The Loving Collective

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19 hours ago ago from CAAI News Media

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7 hours ago ago from Bookling's World

The great American sociologist Erving Goffman, when looking at newspaper advertising around the middle of the last century, concluded that gender relations were played out on the page: Women gaze at the viewer invitingly or at least in a friendly way, whilst men keep their gaze averted, thereby assuming a stance of indifference and (masculine) autonomy. Goffman also noticed that women are usually in a lower position, thus appearing shorter ...

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1 day ago ago from mikeroweWORKS

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