Sport Magazine & Swimsuit Issue
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Sport Magazine is a popular publication that addresses issues of sports and that appeals to men, and once a year it has an issue that is dedicated to the new swimsuits designed for women, as modeled by leading models in scenes set in different parts of the world. In 1991, the photos were being shot by one of New York's leading fashion photographers, and at the same time a team from ESPN was shooting the photographer and his models for a television documentary that was released on video as Dazzling Women of Sport. The documentary offers not only an examination of this particular photo shoot but a sense of what fashion photography and magazine photography is like as a profession, what the photographer has to go through to get what he wants, how the models are utilized, what training they need, and how modeling has changed in recent years as there has been more emphasis on athletics, health, and activity in the shot itself. This these elements are especially important in a photo-shoot for a sports magazine, of course, which features women in athletic situations, showing the swimsuits not merely as fashion but as something to be worn in an active life. The intent of the magazine is to increase circulation for this issue. The intent of the photographer is to create images that will appeal and help sell both the magazine and the swimsuits. The reason both can be successful relates to gender roles in Western civilization and to the power of sexual imagery in the media.
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w designs and makes readers want to buy them either for themselves or their girl friends.
Gender roles in Western societies have been changing rapidly in recent years, with the changes created both by evolutionary changes in society, including economic shifts which have altered the way people work and indeed which people work as more and more women enter the workforce, and by pressure brought to make changes because of the perception that the traditional social structure was inequitable. Gender relations are part of the socialization process, the initiation given the young by society, teaching them certain values and creating in them certain behavior patterns acceptable to their social roles. Anthropologists find certain common patterns in the division of labor which help shape gender roles in different social settings. Over time, these roles become set and are accepted as if they were part of the natural order rather than the result of specific economic and social forces. Those who support the gender role changes that have been taking place and those who do not both may look to ethnographic studies of other social groups for support of the idea that traditional gender roles are only a reflection of a lower order of econom
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Approximate Word count = 1631
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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