By Rebecca Crann Family Life Marge has three children with her husband Homer Bart Lisa and Maggie Marge is the moralistic force and tries to maintain order in the house ID: 621388
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Gender Representation in Mass Media: Marge Simpson
By: Rebecca
CrannSlide2
Family Life
Marge
has three
children with
her husband
Homer
;
Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Marge is the moralistic force
and tries
to maintain order in
the house.
She
is often portrayed as a stereotypical television
mother.Slide3
Job History
Marge has been
the
homemaker
for her family for most of the series, however
, she has held several one-episode jobs in the course of the series. These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power
Plant ,selling houses and owning
her own
pretzel business. Slide4
Education
Marge attended High School at Springfield High but did not go on to University after. She met Homer in her senior year and instead invested all her time on him, and became pregnant with Bart 2 years later. Slide5
Personality
Marge is a foil to her reckless and impulsive husband. She has high morals and a tendency to be a 'wet blanket
'.
She
dislikes
any
sort of risk, can be fearful of new things and has set her life to a
routine entirely set around her
housework.Slide6
Stereotypes
She tends to consider anything that isn't completely plain to be
amazing and exciting. Marge is portrayed as emotionally, financially and socially
dependent
, therefore she relies almost completely on Homer and her family for support.Slide7
Stereotypes
She has been shown as very technologically illiterate and the family often pokes fun at her for it. This adds to her dependence on others and adds to the idea that she cant do anything but housework by herself
.
Marge has also been depicted
as a bad driver, a common
stereotype for women.Slide8
Stereotypes
Marge carries virtually all of the “housewife” stereotypically traits. She’s the responsible parent, spends all her time doing housework and taking care of the kids, has no post-secondary education, very little job experience and depends completely on her husband to
financially care for her and her
family.Slide9
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUYtG336C8