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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... behaviour.Forexample: Domesticor romantic dramas (including soap operas) show us how neighbours, friends and lovers interact. When a person hasa lover for the first timein their lives, how do theyknow how to behave? Andwhere ...
... behaviour is somewhat different.The government's Time Use Surveyfor2005 foundthat: Women in Great Britain spent more time on shopping and other domestic work in 2005 than on paid work, 228 minutes and 146 minutes respectively. In ...
... behaviour and language. (Latham, 2006) This observation led tohisforthright conclusion: 'Australian mates and goodblokes have beenreplaced by nervous wrecks, metrosexualknobs and tossbags' (ibid.). Unsurprisingly, Australian ...
... behaviour is essentially male. [...] Andyet, forall theirbehaving badly, theydonot seem anythe happier. Throughout North America, Europe and Australia,male suicides outnumber female bya factor of between 3 and4to1. [...] Men renowned ...
... behaviour are linked in a circularrelationship dependent on a multitude of environmental factors–ishardtofit into a tabloidheadline. (Kane, 2000) Clare is particularly good onthe masculine drive to 'prove' oneself through work – perhaps ...
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