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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... of course –in particular, theWorld Wide Web had becomea popular place forpeople to share their life stories and creativeproducts during the 1990s(see Gauntlett, 2000; Gauntlett and Horsley,2004). Thepromiseofthe Web,to connect people ...
... of course –notalways with great success, aswe willseein the next 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 ...
... of course,that paid workcanbe difficult and tedious.But housework isalmost always tedious, and exhausting.Men, we note from this study, only really pullthe stops out forthesatisfaction of puttingup some shelvesand growing potatoes ...
... fatherbeing present at all,andscientific advancesseem tobe making men unnecessary to reproductionitself (Clare 2001: 7). All this adds upto the modern men's 'crisis'although, ofcourse, it's a bit overexcitable to call it a crisis. It's.
... of course,is notactually inconsistent withthe basicidea of feminism, which originally sought tofree both women andmen from constricting gender stereotypes.) Explaining the book's title in a 1999 interview, Faludi said: To meithas ...
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