Gender and the media : womens places /

• Other Authors: Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940- (Editor), Demos, Vasilikie P. (Editor)
• Format: 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.; Social Science > Women's Studies.; Gender studies: women.

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.