Revista Estudos Feministas
Print version ISSN 0104-026XOn-line version ISSN 1806-9584
Abstract
ALMEIDA, Heloisa Buarque de. Consumidoras e heroínas: gênero na telenovela. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2007, vol.15, n.01, pp.177-192. ISSN 1806-9584.
This article explores the relationship between television soap operas, consumption and gender, in order to understand how media is articulated to the promotion of goods and of consumer culture, and how gender is a very important axis of such articulation. The research has originally started from a soap opera reception ethnography, but unfolded in the analysis of the relationship between television and advertising, discussing the feminilization of consumption and the construction of a certain hegemonic female image both in soap operas and in advertising.
Keywords : Television; Gender; Consumption; Brazilian Soap Operas.