Gender, Race, and Class in Media - A Critical Reader

About the author

Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, where she is also chair of the American studies department. She has been researching and writing about the pornography industry for over twenty years. She has written numerous articles on pornography, media images of women, and representations of race in pop culture. Her latest book is PORNLAND: How Pornography has Hijacked our Sexuality. She is a cofounder of the activist group Stop Porn Culture!Jean M. Humez is a professor emerita of women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she has taught courses in both women’s studies and American studies and chaired the women’s studies department. She designed and taught an undergraduate women and the media course early in her career, and came to collaborate with Gail Dines through her interest in media text analysis. She has also published books and articles on African American women’s spiritual and secular autobiographies, and on women and gender in Shaker religion. Her most recent book is Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories.

Summary

This provocative fifth edition takes an integrated approach to media studies, examining how our social identities are shaped by the mass media as economic and cultural institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Gail Dines, Gail Humez Dines, Gail Mcmahon Humez Dines
• Assisted by: Lori Bindig (Editor), Bindig Lori (Editor), Gail Dines (Editor), Dines Gail (Editor), Jean M. Humez (Editor), Jean McMahon Humez (Editor), William E Yousman (Editor), William E E Yousman (Editor), William E. Yousman (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2018
• EAN: 9781506390796
• ISBN: 978-1-5063-9079-6
• No. of pages: 712
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies