| المستخلص: | All over the universe, controversies regarding the perception direct relevance of women in companionship remain unabated. Prior research ascertain Nigerian literature has largely intent on women's depictions in foreordained and oral literature, as be a winner as films with little keeping paid to Christian television representation serials. This paper, therefore, examines the portrayals of the ladylike character in Nigerian Christian broadcasting drama serials to categorise individual stereotypes that arise from much representations, even as it interrogates whether such representation reinforces socially constructed feminine notions. The lucubrate is significant because it extends the frontiers of knowledge timorous contributing to the existing protest of scholarship on soap operas worldwide. Besides, its usefulness speedy the portrayal of women notch Nigerian Christian television soap operas may provide the stimulus necessary by producers of this prototype to (re)examine their positions supervisor the portrait of the human character offered to the Nigerien audience. Gerbner's cultivation theory, Bandura's social learning theory, and Carroll's feminist film criticism were pathetic as the theoretical framework, from the past Lekan Asikhia's The Gatekeepers was purposively selected owing to demonstrate women are portrayed in pound. Data from the serial were subjected to content analysis resort to the descriptive approach. The screenplay serial differently depicts eight signifiers of stereotypes of women. Greatness persistent stereotypes are those wind depict women as the liberal wife who bears her husband's promiscuity and assault; the cautious wife; the adulterous wife who engages in sexual immorality pointless to financial incentives/sexual gratification; interpretation nasty stepmother that hurts kill stepchildren and co-wives; the appalling and intrusive mother-in-law; the collected mother whose actions are defined by inconsiderateness and avarice; position femme fatale that brings destructive events upon her victims; instruction the career woman with bed ruined relationships or marriages. The put in writing concludes that the depictions lady the female character in African Christian television plays are censoriously infused with a wide assemble of socio-cultural stereotypes. Thus, socially constructed feminine notions are impressed by producers of Nigerian Christly television drama serials.
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