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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From inside the book
... tobe equals within the sphere of personal relationships. The sociologist Anthony Giddens (of whom more in Chapter 5) asserts that intimate relationshipshave become 'democratised',sothatthe bond between partners – evenwithin amarriage ...
... tobe doing abitbetter: New Scientist (2005) reported that British fathers of underfives spend an average of two hours per day on childrelated activity; in the 1970s it wasjust 15 minutes. Meanwhile, there areobvious inequalities on the ...
... tobe reasonablypleased about. Society clearlychanged agreatdealin thesecond half of the twentieth century,and sexualequalityis something that almost everybody inpoweratleast says they are in favour of. On the everyday level, as noted ...
... fatherbeing present at all,andscientific advancesseem tobe making men unnecessary to reproductionitself (Clare 2001: 7). All this adds upto the modern men's 'crisis'although, ofcourse, it's a bit overexcitable to call it a crisis. It's.
... Tobe fair, Anthony Clare doesn't think that men needto have a crisis, either, but they do need to change. Emotional communication, and the expressionof loveandvulnerability, areimportant. Mendon't needto become 'like women ...
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