| Description |
xiv, 366 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Issues in cultural and media studies
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Issues in cultural and media studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mapping the contested terrain of media and gender research / Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner -- From Mrs Happyman to kissing chaps goodbye: advertising reconstructs femininity / Myra Macdonald -- The politics of the smile: 'soft news' and the sexualization of the popular press / Patricia Holland -- Murder, gender and the media: sexualizing politics and violence / Saraswati Sunindyo -- Old strategies for new texts: how American television is creating and treating lesbian characters / Marguerite Moritz -- Pretty tough: the cult of femininity in women's magazines / Sherrie A. Inness -- The impact of monitoring media images of women / Margaret Gallagher -- The great rock and roll swindle: the representation of women in the British rock music press / Helen Davies -- Losing fear: video and radio productions of native Aymara women / Carmen Ruíz -- The commercialization of masculinities: from the 'new man' to the 'new lad' / John Beynon -- Women and the internet: the natural history of a research project / Anne Scott, Lesley Semmens and Lynette Willoughby -- Knowing pornography / Robert Jensen -- Sapphires, spitfires, sluts and superbitches: Aframericans and Latinas in contemporary Hollywood film / Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg -- Women and soap opera: resistive readings / Mary Ellen Brown -- Freud vs. women: the popularization of therapy on daytime talk shows / Jane Shattuc -- What girls want: the intersections of leisure and power in female computer game play / Heather Gilmour. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. E. graham McKinley |
| Subject |
Mass media and women.
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Mass media and women. |
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Mass media criticism.
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Mass media criticism. |
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Women in mass media.
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Women in mass media. |
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Sex role in mass media.
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Sex role in mass media. |
| Added Author |
Carter, Cynthia, 1959-
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Steiner, Linda.
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| ISBN |
033521097X paperback |
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9780335210978 paperback |
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0335210988 cased |
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9780335210985 cased |
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