The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory.
- Brings together a collection of new, cutting-edge research exploring a number of different facets of the broad relationship between gender and media
- Moves beyond associating gender with man/woman and instead considers the relationship between the construction of gender norms, biological sex and the mediation of sex and sexuality
- Offers genuinely new insights into the complicated and complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media
- Essay topics range from the continuing sexism of TV advertising to ways in which the internet is facilitating the (re)invention of our sexual selves.
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xix
Editor’s Introduction xx
Part I Mediated Women 1
1 The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship 3
Carolyn M. Byerly
2 Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings 20
Claudia Bucciferro
3 The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria 35
Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Stover
4 Gossip Blogs and ‘Baby Bumps’: The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media 53
Erin Meyers
5 Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls 71
Ilana Eleá
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