The handbook of gender, sex, and media /

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Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Description:xxvii, 576 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Handbooks in communication and media
Handbooks in communication and media.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8534031
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Other authors / contributors:Ross, Karen.
ISBN:9781444338546 (hardback : alk. paper)
1444338544 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Introduction
  • Part I. Mediated Women
  • 1. The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship
  • 2. Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings
  • 3. The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria
  • 4. Gossip Blogs and 'Baby Bumps': The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media
  • 5. Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls
  • 6. Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse
  • Part II. Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables
  • 7. Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man
  • 8. Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male Protagonist
  • 9. Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes in Genre Films
  • 10. Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11
  • 11. Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos
  • 12. StudioSive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing Masculine Identity
  • Part III. Queering the Pitch
  • 13. No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape
  • 14. The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony
  • 15. Andro-phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word Audiences
  • 16. Questioning Queer Audiences: Exploring Diversity in Lesbian and Gay Men's Media Uses and Readings
  • 17. 'In Touch' with the Female Body: Cinema, Sport, and Lesbian Representability
  • 18. Why Doesn't your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters, and Contemporary Queer Theory
  • 19. Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Coming Out in US Teen Television Drama Series
  • 20. Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses
  • 21. Transgendered Saints and Harlots: Reproduction of Popular Brazilian Transgender Stereotypes through Performance on Stage, on Screen, and in Everyday Life
  • Part IV. Women, Men, and Gender
  • 22. Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond
  • 23. Colin Won't Drink out of a Pink Cup
  • 24. Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read the 'Knowing Wink' in Advertising
  • 25. Communication as Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze
  • 26. Dutch Moroccan Girls Performing their Selves in Instant Messaging Spaces
  • Part V. All about Sex
  • 27. Sex and the Media
  • 28. Deliciously Consumable: The Uses and Abuses of Irony in 'Sex-Trafficking' Campaign Films
  • 29. The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover, and Mediated Sex
  • 30. Enacting Bodies: Online Dating and New Media Practices
  • 31. Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era
  • 32. Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire
  • Index