Gendered Media - Women, Men, and Identity Politics

Informationen zum Autor Karen Ross has worn many hats. She has worked as a sales person in department and music stores, then was a receptionist, secretary, real estate agent, bank teller, waitress, insurance agent, and financial planner before finding her calling in social work and psychotherapy. Ross draws on these experiences to create the characters and world depicted in "The Struggle for Kathy's Soul". She has written articles and pamphlets, but this is her first novel. She lives in California with her dog, Sadie. Klappentext Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on. Zusammenfassung Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother! Terminator! girls' use of mobile phones! women news editors! the Wonderbra generation! the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena! and so on. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Project gender: identity/ies in flux Chapter 2 The body in question: less than the sum of our parts Chapter 3 Sexymedia: the pornographication of popular culture or just a bit of slap and tickle? Chapter 4 Women in/and news: the invisible and the profane Chapter 5 Gender@internet Chapter 6 Endpoint

Product details

• Authors: Karen Ross, Ross Karen
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2013
• EAN: 9780742554078
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5407-8
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture; Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Communication Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Media and society