The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media

by Ross, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781444338546
• ISBN10: 1444338544
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. Brings together a collection of new, cutting-edge research exploring a number of different facets of the broad relationship between gender and media Moves beyond associating gender with man/woman and instead considers the relationship between the construction of gender norms, biological sex and the mediation of sex and sexuality Offers genuinely new insights into the complicated and complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media Essay topics range from the continuing sexism of TV advertising to ways in which the internet is facilitating the (re)invention of our sexual selves.

Author Biography

Karen Ross is Professor of Media and Public Communication at the University of Liverpool. She has written extensively on the relationships between women and media and between the media and the public. Her recent publications include Women and Media: International Perspectives (with Carolyn Byerly, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), Women and Media: A Critical Introduction (with Carolyn Byerly, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), Rethinking Media Education: Critical Pedagogy and Identity Politics (edited with Anita Nowak and Sue Abel, 2007), Gendered Media (2009), and The Media and the Public (with Stephen Coleman, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). She is the founding editor of the ICA/Wiley-Blackwell journal Communication, Culture & Critique.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Editor's Introduction	p. xx
Mediated Women	p. 1
The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship	p. 3
Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings	p. 20
The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria	p. 35
Gossip Blogs and 'Baby Bumps': The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media	p. 53
Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls	p. 71
Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse	p. 88
Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables	p. 105
Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man	p. 107
Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male Protagonist	p. 118
Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes in Genre Films	p. 135
Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11	p. 157
Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos	p. 174
StudioSive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing Masculine Identity	p. 189
Queering the Pitch	p. 205
No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape	p. 207
The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony	p. 226
Andro-phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word Audiences	p. 241
Questioning Queer Audiences: Exploring Diversity in Lesbian and Gay Men's Media Uses and Readings	p. 260
'In Touch' with the Female Body: Cinema, Sport, and Lesbian Representability	p. 277
Why Doesn't your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters, and Contemporary Queer Theory	p. 294
Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Coming Out in US Teen Television Drama Series	p. 313
Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses	p. 326
Transgendered Saints and Harlots: Reproduction of Popular Brazilian Transgender Stereotypes through Performance on Stage, on Screen, and in Everyday Life	p. 344
Women, Men, and Gender	p. 363
Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond	p. 365
Colin Won't Drink out of a Pink Cup	p. 383
Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read the 'Knowing Wink' in Advertising	p. 401
Communication as Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze	p. 419
Dutch Moroccan Girls Performing their Selves in Instant Messaging Spaces	p. 436
All about Sex	p. 455
Sex and the Media	p. 457
Deliciously Consumable: The Uses and Abuses of Irony in 'Sex-Trafficking' Campaign Films	p. 470
The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover, and Mediated Sex	p. 487
Enacting Bodies: Online Dating and New Media Practices	p. 502
Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era	p. 516
Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire	p. 535
Index	p. 552
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