Title: Achilles effect
Description: Explores gender bias in the entertainment aimed at primary school boys, focusing on the dominant themes in children's TV shows, toy advertising, movies and books; gender stereotypes of both sexes, male dominance, negative portrayals of fathers, breaking of the mother/son bond and the devaluing of femininity.
Subjects: Masculinity in popular culture, Masculinity in motion pictures, Masculinity in literature, Men in literature, Men in motion pictures
Places: United States