Critical Readings

Description:

"Critical Readings: Media and Gender provides a lively and engaging introduction to the field of media and gender research, drawing from a wide range of important international scholarship. A variety of conceptual and methodological approaches is used to explore subjects such as: entertainment; news; grassroots communication; new media texts; institutions; audiences. Topics include: Gender identity and television talk shows; historical portrayals of women in advertising; the sexualization of the popular press; the representation of lesbians on television; the cult of femininity in women's magazines; images of African American women and Latinas in Hollywood cinema; sexual violence in the media; women in popular music; pornography and masculine power; women's relationship to the Internet."--Back cover.

subjects: Mass media criticism,  Mass media and women,  Women in mass media,  Sex role in mass media,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Press coverage,  Social aspects,  Mass media and public opinion,  Public opinion,  Social problems,  Mass media,  Moral panics,  Moral conditions,  Cultural studies,  Gender Studies,  Media Studies,  Media, information & communication industries,  Mass Media - General,  Performing Arts / Mass Media,  Social Science,  Sociology,  Violence in mass media,  Panic,  Influence,  Médias et femmes,  Médias,  Évaluation,  Femmes dans les médias,  Rôle selon le sexe dans les médias,  Geschlechterrolle,  Massenmedien,  Massacommunicatie,  Sekseverschillen,  Social sciences