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News Narratives About The Hpv Vaccine For Adolescent Males, Katherine E. Bennett Dec 2016

News Narratives About The Hpv Vaccine For Adolescent Males, Katherine E. Bennett

Communication Theses

The goal of this research was to examine portrayals of gender roles and expectations related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for men and boys in U.S. newspapers within the theoretical framework of feminist theory, feminist media theory, hegemonic masculinity, and heteronormativity. Since the HPV vaccine was approved for girls in women in 2006, research has been conducted examining media portrayals of the HPV vaccine for girls and women, but little has been written about how the news has treated the subject for men and boys. This research examined print newspaper articles between 2011, when the U.S. Advisory Council on …