This is the music magazine I will be analysing, the title of the magazine is "BLENDER", the star on the cover is Katy Perry who is a famous pop star.
Feminism started to evolve around the time that woman got the right to vote. This is when woman started to campaign for change. They wanted more equal rights, especially with the fact that woman got less pay than men, such as if there was a male teacher and a female teacher doing exactly the same job, the male teacher would get paid more. Woman started to campaign for this to change through protesting and taking part in marches. In 1975 the sex equality act was passed where women were equal in terms of pay and conditions.
After this feminism gradually grew and changed the way woman were represented in terms of their appearance started to change in the eye of the public view.
Katy Perry, she's always got a different style of clothing on every photo shoot she does, whether that be a modelling photo or a magazine cover photo. This helps attract audiences to sell more copies of the product and to get more attention and probably make more money. In reference to Laura Mulvey's male gaze, in this photo of her she's showing a lot of skin and not wearing a lot of clothes. A lot of men will find her attractive and will view her as something to look at in reference to their own personal objectification. Women will buy the magazine to read about her, and to try and identify themselves to her, maybe to copy her style. Relating to feminist theory males will gaze at her in reference to her appearance. The fact that she is not wearing hardly any clothes can be seen as "fetishism" which is the media technological word for the slang term 'eye candy'.
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