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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... social changes to allow menand womento spend less time in work,and more time experiencing their relationshipswith each other, with children, and withthe world in general – which, the evidenceshows, makesfor happier people and –lest ...
... social changes of the past few decades in quite different ways. Masculinity isseen as thestateof'being a man', whichis currently somewhat in flux. Femininity, ontheother hand, isnot necessarily seen as thestate of'beinga woman'; instead ...
... a 2001 study by Britain's largest market research group, Mintel, suggested that gay and straight lifestyles were increasingly convergent, and that an atmosphere of tolerance and social mixing dominated in cities (Arlidge, 2001). A MORI.
An Introduction David Gauntlett. and social mixing dominated in cities (Arlidge, 2001). A MORI poll in the same year found that just 17 per cent of people in England said that they felt'less positive' towardslesbians andgays, andthree ...
... Social constructionism – The view that people's personality and behaviour are not predetermined by biology, butare shapedby societyandculture. Peoplearenot fixedfrom birth, andcan adapt and change.Modernlifeand modernity –The present ...
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