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... > social science subjects > communication and media studies > communication studies > communication theory > feminist orientations > gender and media
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gender and media  

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  • French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 assertion that one is not born but rather becomes a woman marks a key moment in the development of feminist theory. It signals the introduction of a crucial distinction between sex (the biological differences between men and women) and gender (the socially constructed differences resulting from this biology)—a distinction that remains to this day a central tenet of feminist thought. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Gender and Media]

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