INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA
How Women’s Magazine Reflects the Idea of Woman’s Life in Reality
Rini Riana
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Introduction
Women’s Magazine is something really familiar with our lives today that it takes a lot of attentions from society, especially woman. Woman Magazine itself can be defined as a written media constructed by some institutions which is containing anything related to the woman’s world. Woman’s world is closely related to the idea of woman magazine because most of the readers of the woman magazine are women. Woman in this term is having crucial roles as the audiences. As the audiences, they defined themselves as gendered text and make sense of the text. Woman magazine can be described as the open way for women to the new world, special, and feminized world. The place where there are a lot of things offered and shared in the name of Women. Anything related about what it is to be female and what is a female place in the world, will be constructed through the Women’s Magazine.
Women’s magazine is different than the other magazine. It is specifically talking about women and anything related to it. While in the woman’s magazine history, there’s a contrast between Woman Magazine and Men’s Magazine. The amount of Woman mgazine are more than the men’s magazine, and predominantly the women’s magazine are read by males. This condition is explained by the terms of culture and ideology, where we can say that men’s world is only that, so it doesn’t need any further explanation. It’s different with women’s magazine that is talking about women’s life, anything concerned with that. Woman needs more explanation to explain their world, which is defined in relation to the ‘naturally’ dominant model. Moreover, the existence of women magazine are variety that it is ranged the audience by the selection in terms of age. Generally, the market recognizes and defines their female readers from the age of 12 year old, but before that there’s also women’s...