Fears for Sale from the Owner: The Role of Media in the Construction of Women as the Frightened Subject

• Main Author: Şehriban Şahin Kaya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gaziantep University 2012-06-01
• Series: Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences
• Subjects: Kadın; Televizyon; Kitle Kültürü; Korku; Korkutulan Özne; Woman; Television; Mass Culture; Fear; Frightened Subject
• Online Access: http://dergipark.gov.tr/jss/issue/24240/256968?publisher=gantep

Television, which makes people lonely and standardized, is in the business of constructing woman as frightened subject. Women who have been pushed out of job market, prisoned at home where they found shelter and are exposed to televion spreding fears and anxieties. Thus, the real frightened problems remain untouched and replaced by superfluous fears. Society, which sees security as the only way of existence, reveals itself in the relationship between gender and crime. This article aims to examine the construction of woman as frightened subject by analyzing the Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert (Sweet and Hard with Müge Anlı), a reality show which is one of the most watched TV program by women. The question this article searches for an answer is why women of media sell fears and anxieties to women. Müge Anlı’s program has the central position to find this anwer