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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... – 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'sopposite–or counterpart– femininity. F e m i n i n i t y.
... femininity', though, perhaps because feminists neverreally sought to revise femininity, preferring to dispose ofthefluffy, passive concept altogether. Femininity is not typicallyacore value for women today. Instead, being 'feminine ...
... femininity'. And elements of fashion, say, mightbe commended for adding'a dash offemininity' toa woman's appearance. Even these examples ofthetermin use, however, incorporate a recognitionofthe broadly 'optional' role which femininity ...
... femininity was also a kind of 'cultural capital' whichbrought both pleasures andproblems. Theirforays intofemininity wereimmensely contradictory.Femininity offered a space for hedonism, autonomy, camaraderie, pleasure and fun whilst ...
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