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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An Introduction David Gauntlett. identities in the Lego identity study 11.6 The individual and society 12.1 The Lego study found that people were familiar with the task of constructing ameaningful storyof selfidentity. TABLES. 8.1 ...
... beenused to explore identitiesin unconventional ways. W HYM ED IA I NF L UE NCE S A RE I MP OR TAN T In modern societies, people typically consume many hours of television each week, look at magazines and other publications, surf.
... society (Farrell, 2001;Nathanson and Young, 2001,2006;Hise, 2004; Ellis,2005). E q ualit y a n dinequ a l i t y Themodern Western world is an odd mix of equal and unequal. Womenandmen may 'feel' equal, butat thesame timeare aware that ...
An Introduction David Gauntlett. modern society is generally happy for the relationship to be dissolved. Thus we have 'a democracy of the emotions in everyday life' (Giddens, 1999). A 1999study basedon longitudinal datafromtheUS General ...
... society, the media and the judiciary,in 2006, wassurprisingly stark: Rachel Mayanja, the SpecialAdviserto the SecretaryGeneral onGender Issues,officially summarised it bysaying, 'Women remain largely invisible, their voices unheard ...
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