University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Communication ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations 5-1-2016 FEMALE GENDER ROLE REPRESENTATION BETWEEN 1990 AND 2010 IN IMPORTED CHILDRENS CARTOONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATIVE YEMENI CULTURE Fatima Al-Hattami Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cj_etds Part of the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation Al-Hattami, Fatima. "FEMALE GENDER ROLE REPRESENTATION BETWEEN 1990 AND 2010 IN IMPORTED CHILDRENS CARTOONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATIVE YEMENI CULTURE." (2016). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cj_etds/67 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communication ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. i Fatima Q. Al Hattami Candidate Communication and Journalism Department This thesis is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication: Approved by the Thesis Committee: Richard Schaefer, Chairperson Ilia Rodríguez Miguel Gandert ii FEMALE GENDER ROLE REPRESENTATION BETWEEN 1990 AND 2010 IN IMPORTED CHILDREN’S CARTOONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATIVE YEMENI CULTURE By FATIMA Q. AL HATTAMI B.A., ENGLISH STUDIES SANAA UNIVERSITY, 2010 THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTERS of Arts Communication The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May, 2016 iii ABSTRACT This thesis explores the female gender role representations in imported cartoons across the years 1990 and 2010 and their resonance with the conservative Yemeni Muslim culture. The two selected cartoons are A Little Princess Sara (a Nippon Animation production) and Totally Spies (a Marathon Media production), both of which are imported to the Arab countries, dubbed into the Arabic language, aired on Arab children’s channels and popular among girls.