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Gendered Media: Women, Men and Identity Politics
Author(s): Karen Ross (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Nov. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 212 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742554066
- ISBN-13: 9780742554061
Book Description
The book is an overview of the various aspects of gender and media in one volume. The book provides introductory overviews to the various themes around women, men, sexuality and the ways in which these attributes are cross-cut by other demographics such as age, ethnicity and disability. In this way, the book genuinely tries to provide a broad introduction to the ways in which gender, in all its facets, engages with media, in one accessible volume.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Karen Ross has brought us a smart, breezy, sophisticated reading of how the media frame us as gendered subjects and how we use the media. This is the work of someone who knows her way around the territory of previous research and past and present media practices, including the Internet. Using feminist theory and a critical edge, Ross reveals that the more things change, the more things still remain the same. Fortunately, she also leaves us with hope about the potential for using media for advocacy and social change.
Ross offers a broad and overarching look at gender and the media from politics to pornography.
The extensive bibliography is formidable and will be of great use to students and scholars. . . . Recommended.
With this book Karen Ross has proven once again that she is one of our most engaged and articulate authors on gender and media. She argues convincingly that classic feminist issues of sexuality and representation need to be reinvented and addressed to counter current cultural cliches that mistakenly suggest a crisis of masculinity and the liberation of femininity. A revealing read for students, and an inspiring agenda for fellow scholars.
