Today I had a meeting with Linda about how my EPQ is going and where I should go from here. We started by writing my title at the top of a sheet of paper so that we could break the question down to see whether my research so far would make me able to fully answer the title. We decided that my research so far has mainly focused on and answered the first half of the question "How far did the gender stereotypes created in Friends change..." as I have found out a lot about the gender stereotypes in Friends and if they changed. However, I have not yet managed to answer the second half "...as a response to changes in American society?" as I have not been able to find much information into American society at the time of Friends. Because of this, Linda suggested that I speak to Diana (the LRC manager) to ask her for researching tips and I have set up a meeting to speak with her on Wednesday.
We also discussed how I could structure my essay and we decided that I should set it out chronologically, for example:
Start (1994): Establish what gender stereotypes each character represented, introduction of each character's role/background, introduction of American society at the time.
Middle (1999): Tracking any changes in stereotypes and American society.
End (2004): what they ended up like and how they changed (both stereotypes in Friends and American society's views on gender).
Linda also said that it may be good to look at researching:
Linda also said that it may be good to look at researching:
- feminism in the time of the show's production and if there were any key feminism protests during this time
- views on surrogacy at the time (as Phoebe is the surrogate mother of her brother's children)
- New York culture specifically
- Presidents at the time and any women in parliament
- Google Scholar for American society gender 1990s
No comments:
Post a Comment