Gendered Media: Women, Men, and Identity Politics

Karen Ross

doi:10.5771/9781442201040

Summary

Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where "gender" is not simply a shorthand for "woman" but also embraces masculinitiy/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on.

The book is an overview of the various aspects of gender and media in one volume. The book provides introductory overviews to the various themes around women, men, sexuality and the ways in which these attributes are cross-cut by other demographics such as age, ethnicity and disability. In this way, the book genuinely tries to provide a broad introduction to the ways in which gender, in all its facets, engages with media, in one accessible volume.

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Copyright Year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-5406-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-0104-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 204
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 01. Project Gender: Identity/ies in Flux No access Pages 13 - 40
Chapter 02. The Body in Question: Less than the Sum of Our Parts No access Pages 41 - 64
Chapter 03. Sexy Media: The Pornographication of Popular Culture or Just a Bit of Slap and Tickle? No access Pages 65 - 88
Chapter 04. Women In/And News: The Invisible and the Profane No access Pages 89 - 122
Chapter 05. Gender@Internet No access Pages 123 - 152
Chapter 06. Endpoint No access Pages 153 - 160
Notes No access Pages 161 - 164
References No access Pages 165 - 192
Index No access Pages 193 - 202
About the Author No access Pages 203 - 204