Cultural pedagogy, gender, and sexuality
Advertising is one of the artifacts that are part of a set of cultural instances and, as such, it works as a mechanism of representation and operates as a mechanism for the constitution of identities. More than seducing consumers or inducing them to obtain a given product, advertising conveys a ki...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2001-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9670 |
| Summary: | Advertising is one of the artifacts that are part of a set of cultural instances and, as such, it works as a
mechanism of representation and operates as a mechanism for the constitution of identities. More than seducing
consumers or inducing them to obtain a given product, advertising conveys a kind of cultural pedagogy and
curriculum. These, among other things, produce values and knowledge, regulate behaviors and ways of being, reproduce
identities and representations, constitute certain power relations and teach ways of being either a woman or
a man, forms of either femininity or masculinity. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-026X 1806-9584 |