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Informationen zum Autor Karen Ross is Professor of Media and Public Communication at the University of Liverpool. She has written extensively on the relationships between women and media and between the media and the public. Her recent publications include Women and Media: International Perspectives (with Carolyn Byerly, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), Women and Media: A Critical Introduction (with Carolyn Byerly, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), Rethinking Media Education: Critical Pedagogy and Identity Politics (edited with Anita Nowak and Sue Abel, 2007), Gendered Media (2009), and The Media and the Public (with Stephen Coleman, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). She is the founding editor of the ICA/Wiley-Blackwell journal Communication, Culture & Critique . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 6 Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse 88 Limor Shifman and Dafna Lemish Part II Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables 105 7 Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man 107 Jeffery P. Dennis 8 Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male Protagonist 118 Stuart Price 9 Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes in Genre Films 135 Guido Ipsen 10 Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11 157 Sarah Godfrey and Hannah Hamad 11 Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos 174 Lynne Hibberd 12 Studio5ive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing Masculine Identity 189 Claire Harrison Part III Queering the Pitch 205 13 No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape 207 Katherine Sender 14 The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony 226 Julie Scanlon 15 Andro- phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word Audiences 241
