Gender and the media : womens places

• Other Authors: Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940- (Editor), Demos, Vasilikie P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Advances in gender research ; . 26.
• Subjects: Women in mass media.; Sex discrimination against women.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787543294; 9781787543317
• ISSN: 1529-2126 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S1529-2126201826
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 221 pages).

Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender and the Media: Women's Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of what is there, as well as what is missing. Their focus is on wo...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Women's places: an introduction to gender and the media
• Part I Agency affirming places
• Chapter 1 War, culture, and agency among sahrawi women refugees: a photo-essay
• Chapter 2 From "old boy" to "gender progressive": the shifting gender story of funeral work in trade journal publications
• Chapter 3 "Punk fairytale": popular music, media, and the (re)production of gender
• Chapter 4 "Trappin' ain't shit to me": how undergraduate students construct meaning around race, gender, and sexuality within hip-hop
• Part II Overtly hostile or agency-denying places
• Chapter 5 Truth, justice, boobs: gender in comic book culture
• Chapter 6 What a b!tch!: cyber aggression toward women of color
• Chapter 7 Mainstreaming gender, endangered, ungendered? analysis of media reports of the 2012 case of rape in India
• Chapter 8 Images of trafficked women: a case study of media and social science discourse in Moldova, 20032008
• Part III Covertly negating places
• Chapter 9 Mortality salience, terror management, and hollywood film: theorizing on the absence of anorexia as a subject in US mainstream movies
• Chapter 10 Who is the American Girl?: analyzing difference in American Girl advice books
• Chapter 11 Gender and critical evaluation in popular music
• Index.