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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... traditional attitudes', the study found (ibid.). In other words, the new 'democracy of the emotions' which is beginning to take hold means that adults are less willing to stay in unhappy relationships or dysfunctionalhouseholds, and are ...
... (Mesure, 2007). Traditional attitudes can have an impact on other people's lives at all levels.Although girls in theUK tend todo betterthan boys at school, for instance, studies by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
... traditional role, but that's no reason to conclude that life is over for men. Men just have tofind a new,modern, useful placefor themselves in the world–just as womenhave to.And this iswhere themass media and popular culture come in ...
... traditional 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 ...
... 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 conveying which messages. More of that later; now we'll turn to masculinity ...
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