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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... female identities 10.1 Selfhelp books 11.1 Examples of drawings of celebrities produced by teenagers 11.2–11.5 Participants building metaphorical modelsoftheir identities in the Lego identity study 11.6 The individual and ...
... female or male, are almost uniformly assertive and singleminded. The attractive toughness of these stars, whilst not necessarily a problem, is 'advertised' to us continuously, and thereforeshould have some impactonour own style and ...
... female politicians in Western European parliaments was 19 percenton average in 2007. In the USA, this was just 16 per cent. InSweden and Finland, by contrast, it was47 and 42percent respectively (alldata from InterParliamentary Union ...
... female bya factor of between 3 and4to1. [...] Men renowned for their abilityand inclination to bestoned, drunkor sexuallydaring, appear terrifiedbythe prospectof revealing that they can be–andoften are – depressed, dependent, in needof ...
... female reader– instead,it isjustonetechnique amongst many, and an amusing, lightweight oneat that.Inafascinating in depth studyofa group of British workingclass women, Beverley Skeggs (1997) finds that her subjects had a complex ...
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