Gauntlett: feminism & masculinity

• David Gauntlett wrote extensively on gender representation and the importance of role models in the media in the late 1990s – early 2000s.
• He looked particularly at theorists such as Butler and McRobbie: “Although the popular remix of feminism is accepted by young women, it remains the case that most women and men remain somewhat constricted within particular gender roles.”

Gauntlett - masculinity:

Gauntlett looked at men’s lifestyle magazines in the same way McRobbie looked at women’s magazines. He found a new, quite different representation of masculinity – reflecting changes in women’s magazines. 

Importantly, he disagrees that masculinity is in crisis – a popular view in the media in the last 15 years.