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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... Anthony Giddens 6.1 Square Michel Foucault in Paris 7.1 Judith Butler 8.1 Men's magazines: seeking masculinities for the modern world 9.1 Women's magazines: offering a range of contradictory suggestions about modern female identities ...
... Anthony Giddens, courtesy of LSE Press Office. page 127, photographof Square Michel FoucaultinParis by Cameo M.Kaisler, reproduced by kind permission. page 146,photograph of Judith Butler by Richard Moran, reproduced by kind permission ...
... Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler), whose ideas about identity give us more to work with when consideringthe role ofthemediainthe formationand negotiation of genderand sexual identities. Thissecond edition also gives ...
... Anthony Giddens (of whom more in Chapter 5) asserts that intimate relationshipshave become 'democratised',sothatthe bond between partners – evenwithin amarriage – haslittle to do with external laws, regulationsor social expectations ...
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