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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... 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 preferences ...
... males' (BBCOnline, 2001a) –revealinghow everyday attitudes at the'micro' level can have an impact upon the 'macro ... male breakdowns, suicidesanda murder. 'Itis avery machoculture, avery competitive culture',commented Andrew Kinder ...
... male culture': This hasbeen squeezed outof society bya number ofpowerful influences: thecrisis in maleidentity brought about by changes in the workplaceandfamily unit;theriseof leftfeminism inthe 1970s and 1980s,withits sanitising ...
... 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 for their abilityand ...
... male 'provider' role also bitterly hurts men who cannot find employment. Inthis sense, Faludi feels that men have been 'betrayed' by asociety which hadseemed topromise them that thetraditional masculine role would deliver some ultimate ...
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