The Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test is named after her.
Who is Alison Bechdel?
This African American lesbian won four Tonys for her 1960 play.
These genres were popular topics of study for feminist media scholars of the 1980s and 1990s.
What are soap operas, romance novels, and sitcoms?
Who runs the world?
Who is the artist, Beyoncé?
A campaign against women's bodily censorship in media (and society)
What is "Free the Nipple"?
The Bechdel test came out this year.
1985.
A targeted campaign against women who are involved in the video games industry
What is "Gamergate"?
This branch of feminism views popular culture as a product of capitalist production
What is Marxist feminism?
Shes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Plot where a main character is excited to see a friend from back in the day, only to find out their friend had "the operation"
What is the "Buddy comes back to town" troupe?
This Disney film passes the test
what is frozen?
Alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young women
What is the 'Womanosphere'?
This approach to feminist media and pop culture asks:
What images are present and what do those images reveal about women's position in culture? Whose images are they and who do they serve? What are the consequences of those images? How do such images have meaning?
What is the Images & Representations approach?
They are founding members of the Olivia Records collective.
Who are Judy Dlugacz and Ginny Berson?
Mommy Dearest, What Happened to Baby Jane, and Weapons are movie examples of this type of horror
This film is featured in the "Rule" and passes the Bechdel Test
What is Alien?
This woman's final solo album is released in 1971, just three months after the Texas singer-songwriter's untimely death at the age of 27.
Who is Janis Joplin?
This feminist media studies approach seeks to answer
How have women managed to express themselves in a patriarchal culture? Why has women's creativity been overlooked, undervalued, or ignored? How do women and men's creativity differ? What are women's stories and myths?
What is Recovery & Reappraisal approach?
This woman composed film scores such as Tron, A Clockwork Orange, and this (play soundtrack). She also helped develop the first Moog synthesizer.
Who is Wendy Carlos?
Tiktok has this amount of anti-feminist content, according to a sample study by Naomi Jones
What is 5%?
The Bechdel Test considers these elements to critique women's representation in media.
What are:
"Reading Instagram through the
lens of the technologies of gender –_____________ – allows for refocusing on questions of gender
representation"
What is --media forms, narratives, and discourses
through which gender is constructed --
This feminist approach seeks to examine
"popular culture within a broader context of women's relationships to the means of symbolic production and expression and within a larger struggle to understand and change social relations and organization."
What is Cultural Theory?
She was a 12th century writer, composer, and nun.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
The Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that this amount of women made up creators on original television series in 2023-24.
What is 23%?