Media, Gender and Identity: An IntroductionPopular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes:
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... chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media's influence ongender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3,men's and women's magazines,TV ...
... chapter. M. EN. A. ND. WO. ME. NT. ODA. Y. Beforewe consider the media's role further, it is worth establishing the relative positions of women and men in modern Western democracies.If thereisa'battle of thesexes',whoiswinning nowadays?
... chapters, magazines for women encourage their readers to be assertive and independent.Pop starslike Beyoncé,and other media iconssuch asOprahWinfrey, convey the same message. Magazines for men, whilst sometimes going overboard with ...
... ' rolemodels tochoose from in magazines, movies andpop music–all of which will be discussed in the following chapters. Traditionalwaysofthinkingare stillpresentinmodernsociety, of course, so we can think of occasions when a woman.
... general audience to more everyday gay andlesbian (and bisexual and transgendered) characters, tolerance should grow. Discussions of the representations ofsexual minorities in television andfilm appear in Chapter 4. O T H E R A X E S O.
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