Normkritiska och informativa porträtteringar av historiska kvinnor : Problematiken i att skapa icke-könsstereotypa illustrationer

Sammanfattning: This thesis discusses how informative illustrations about women’s history can be done with the help from gender perspectives, semiotics and picture telling. It’s hard to inform about women in stereotypical portrayals, since they mostly highlight women’s beauty and looks. Thus, the problem is about how to avoid stereotypical portrayals of women and instead highlight relevant information rather than looks and aesthetics. To do this I’ve developed four guidelines based on previous research and image analyses of gender in pictures. Those guidelines work as a model that helps the planning and designing of illustrations that avoids stereotypical representations of gender. To test the guideline’s impact on the design I made several sketches to test. To sum the thesis up I discuss and answer the question formulation that’s about finding awareness in what stereotypes exists and make guidelines based on them and the information goals, to make non-stereotypical portraits of women.