Critical readings : media and gender

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Critical readings : media and gender

edited by Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner

（Issues in cultural and media studies）

Open University Press, 2004

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780335210978

内容説明

How is gender constructed in the media? To what extent do portrayals of gender influence everyday perceptions of ourselves and our actions? In what ways do the media reinforce and sometimes challenge gender inequalities? Critical Readings: Media and Gender provides a lively and engaging introduction to the field of media and gender research, drawing from a wide range of important international scholarship. A variety of conceptual and methodological approaches is used to explore subjects such as: entertainment; news; grassroots communication; new media texts; institutions; audiences. Topics include: Gender identity and television talk shows Historical portrayals of women in advertising The sexualization of the popular press The representation of lesbians on television The cult of femininity in women's magazines Images of African American women and Latinas in Hollywood cinema Sexual violence in the media Women in popular music Pornography and masculine power Women's relationship to the Internet. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies, gender studies, the sociology of the media, mass communication, journalism, communication studies and politics.

目次

SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORDACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR READINGS 1. INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READINGS: MEDIA AND GENDER Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner 2. MAPPING THE CONTESTED TERRAIN OF MEDIA AND GENDER RESEARCH Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner PART I: TEXTS IN CONTEXT 3.From Mrs Happyman to Kissing Chaps Goodbye: Advertising Reconstructs Femininity Myra Macdonald 4.The Politics of the Smile: 'Soft News' and the Sexualization of the Popular Press Patricia Holland 5.Murder, Gender, and the Media: Sexualizing Politics and Violence Saraswati Sunindyo 6.Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters Marguerite Moritz 7.Pretty Tough: The Cult of Femininity in Women's Magazines Sherrie A. Inness PART II - (RE)PRODUCING GENDER 8.The Impact of Media Monitoring Margaret Gallagher 9.The Great Rock and Roll Swindle: The Representation of Women in the British Rock Music Press Helen Davies 10.Losing Fear: Video and Radio Productions of Native Aymara Women Carmen Ruiz 11.The Commercialization of Masculinities: From the 'New Man' to the 'New Lad' John Beynon 12.Women and the Internet: The Natural History of a Research Project Anne Scott, Lesley Semmens and Lynette Willoughby PART III - AUDIENCES AND IDENTITIES 13.Knowing Pornography Robert Jensen 14.Sapphires, Spitfires, Sluts, and Superbitches: Aframericans and Latinas in Contemporary Hollywood Film Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg 15.Women and Soap Operas: Resistive Readings Mary Ellen Brown 16.Freud vs Women: The Popularization of Therapy on Daytime Talk Shows Jane Shattuc 16.What Girls Want: The Intersections of Leisure and Power in Female Computer Game Play Heather Gilmour GLOSSARY MEDIA AND GENDER VIDEO RESOURCES INDEX
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: hbk ISBN 9780335210985

内容説明

*How is gender constructed in the media? *To what extent do media portrayals of gender influence our everyday perceptions of ourselves and our actions? *In what ways do the media reinforce and sometimes challenge gender inequalities? The Media and Gender Reader provides a lively and engaging introduction to the field of critical media and gender research, drawing from a wide menu of exciting and important international scholarship in the field. Featured here is the work of authors studying a wide array of entertainment, news, grassroots and new media texts, institutions and audiences from a diverse range of conceptual and methodological approaches. The topics featured include, among others, gender identity and television talk shows, the commercialisation of masculinity, historical portrayals of women in advertising, representing lesbians on television, the cult of femininity in women's magazines, gender and media violence, the sexualisation of the popular press, racist sexual stereotyping in Hollywood cinema, women in popular music, media production and the empowerment of women, soap opera audiences, girl gamers, the impact of media monitoring, pornography and masculine power, and women's historical relationship to the Internet. It will have international appeal to readers in the Humanities and Social Sciences, especially in Mass Communication, Communication Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Journalism Studies, and Sociology.

目次

Series editor's foreword Acknowledgements The contested terrain of media and gender editors' introduction Part one: Gendered texts in context Readings 1-5 Part two: (Re)Producing gender Readings 6-10 Part three: Gendered audiences and identities Readings 11-15 Index.

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