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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... 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 A C K N O W L E D G.
... young people–are spendingless time withtraditional media, such as television, and moretime online, interacting with othersthrough these popular websites (see, for example, BBC, 2006a, 2006b). So people's relationship with mediatoday ...
... 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 this is kindof inaccurate.Women have ...
... young men stilltend to avoid precisely these careers, even though they say that they might enjoy them (EOC, 2005).Furthermore, astudy in 2007found thatBlack andAsian womenwere'missing' from almost athird of workplaces in areas with ...
... young women tobe successful, so thecharacteristics of femininity– passivity, reticence, assuming that men and authority figures are probably right andthatyouare probably wrong – are therefore redundant. Schoolgirlstodayhave shakenoff ...
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