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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... things that a man can do, and vice versa; situations where this is notthe case become wellpublicised courtroom battles.More informally, womenand men generally believe themselves tobe equals within the sphere of personal relationships ...
... Things have changed quite quickly, andthere is still some way to go, but equalitywithin everyday life is now quite well established. This needstobe carriedforward into the formalworld of work and government where a disproportionate ...
... thing exists. Somepartsof popular culture are said to be 'reasserting' the traditional forms of masculinity, whilst others are challenging them – and as we will see later in the book, it's even debatable which media products are ...
... things from gullible men, buttraditional femininity is far from being essential to the modern female reader– instead,it isjustonetechnique amongst many, and an amusing, lightweight oneat that.Inafascinating in depth studyofa group of ...
... thing for women traditionally, is increasingly irrelevant today. Whilst 'masculinity' alwaysincluded a number of positive attributes which men are keen to hang on to – assertiveness and independence, for example, are clearly good things ...
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