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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... women's monthly lifestyle magazines, 1 July–31 December 2006 9.2 Circulation figures of UK women's weekly magazines,1 July–31 December2006 9.3 Circulation figuresof UK'teenage lifestyle'magazines for young women,1 July–31 December 2006 ...
... women and men in modern Western democracies.If thereisa'battle of thesexes',whoiswinning nowadays? Women andmen generally haveequalrights – witha few exceptions within various laws, which we see being campaigned against and changed ...
... Women increasinglyreject datedideas regarding their gender role, and menare changing too. The UK'sNational Centre for Social Research (2000)reported that theirannual surveyof social attitudes had foundthat: The traditionalview of women ...
... women still spent 20 minutes more onaverage per day onwork than men. Overall,women carriedoutabout twothirdsofthe time spent on housework (178 minutesa day compared with100 minutes for men). Women spent more timethan men cooking and ...
... women own 26 percent of all nonfarm businesses (US Department of Labor,2002). According to theresearch organisation ... women's impact in business, academia, civil society, the media and the judiciary,in 2006, wassurprisingly stark ...
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