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Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI

Magazine is one of the main sources of information on health-related issues, including menopause. Due to its format and writing style, a magazine can be regarded as an easy reading. Considered to be a taboo or non-spoken topic in some societies, menopause does not receive similar amount of coverag...

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Main Authors: Sedu, Nerawi, Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015
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H61.8 Communication of information
HM831 Social change
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/44406/1/MENOPAUSE_IMAGES_IN_MIDI.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.444062018-05-21T06:55:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/44406/ Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI Sedu, Nerawi Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura H61.8 Communication of information HM831 Social change Magazine is one of the main sources of information on health-related issues, including menopause. Due to its format and writing style, a magazine can be regarded as an easy reading. Considered to be a taboo or non-spoken topic in some societies, menopause does not receive similar amount of coverage by the magazines as compared to business, education, beauty and fashion. In other words, it is regarded as less important women issues. The study aims to analyse the images or representations of menopause in a woman magazine. Compared to other studies on the portrayals of women and women-related issues in the mass media, this study only focuses on depictions of menopause in MIDI. The magazine is a fortnightly Malay language publication specifically targeted at female readers aged forty and above. The data for this study were gathered for several months in years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. The articles from MIDI were analysed using thematic analysis, focusing on the concepts or expressions or phrases used by the magazine to depict the concept of menopause. The findings of the study highlighted some of the common images and representations of menopause in MIDI. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/44406/1/MENOPAUSE_IMAGES_IN_MIDI.pdf Sedu, Nerawi and Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura (2015) Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI. Asian Social Science, 11 (22). pp. 76-80. ISSN 1911-2025 (O), 1911-2017 (P) http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/viewFile/52364/28030 10.5539/ass.v11n22p76
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HM831 Social change
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HM831 Social change
Sedu, Nerawi
Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura
Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI
description Magazine is one of the main sources of information on health-related issues, including menopause. Due to its format and writing style, a magazine can be regarded as an easy reading. Considered to be a taboo or non-spoken topic in some societies, menopause does not receive similar amount of coverage by the magazines as compared to business, education, beauty and fashion. In other words, it is regarded as less important women issues. The study aims to analyse the images or representations of menopause in a woman magazine. Compared to other studies on the portrayals of women and women-related issues in the mass media, this study only focuses on depictions of menopause in MIDI. The magazine is a fortnightly Malay language publication specifically targeted at female readers aged forty and above. The data for this study were gathered for several months in years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. The articles from MIDI were analysed using thematic analysis, focusing on the concepts or expressions or phrases used by the magazine to depict the concept of menopause. The findings of the study highlighted some of the common images and representations of menopause in MIDI.
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title Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI
title_short Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI
title_full Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI
title_fullStr Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI
title_full_unstemmed Images and representations of menopause in a Malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of MIDI
title_sort images and representations of menopause in a malaysian woman magazine: an analysis of midi
publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/44406/1/MENOPAUSE_IMAGES_IN_MIDI.pdf
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