This study focuses on the effect of soap operas on the construction and continuation of gender stereotypical images of woman. To this aim, a general framework of gender stereotypes and their relation with mass media is drawn and in the following part, two famous series on Turkish TV channels is analyzed in terms of gender stereotypical roles of the female characters in these series.
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