Keywords

Gender, stereotypes, roles, fiction, television, social construction of the reality

Abstract

In the last years there has been an increase of gender studies, with the incorporation of women at academic world and as consecuence of a bigger social awareness. Even so, the analyses of this type, specially in communication, are not very usual. The object of this paper is to analyze gender construction and stereotypes in spanish fiction TV through two successful Spanish series, proposing a model of analyses that allows to recognize and to clasificate these representations.

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Galán-Fajardo, E. (2007). Gender construction and spanish fiction TV. [Construcción de género y ficción televisiva en España]. Comunicar, 28, 229-236. https://doi.org/10.3916/C28-2007-24

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