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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... the subject matter engaging, and, as a result, the book is difficult to put aside. It is a thoroughly pleasurable introduction to the ties between selfidentities and ... The book includes: a comparison ofgender representations in the past.
An Introduction David Gauntlett. This sounds like a huge break with tradition, then. But note that this is a change in attitudes. The reality of actual behaviour is somewhat different.The government's Time Use Surveyfor2005 foundthat: Women ...
An Introduction David Gauntlett. 2007). In the UK, just 15 per cent of businesses are owned by women (ESRC,2006), whilst in the United States, women own 26 percent of all nonfarm businesses (US Department of Labor,2002). According to ...
An Introduction David Gauntlett. government where a disproportionate number of men are running the show. Other changes are needed in the world of work too – amazinglyinthe ... by the publication of Anthony Clare's book On Men: Masculinity in.
... 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 because, as he admits in ...
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