Routledge Companion to Media & Gender

The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender explores a broad span of issues, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to talk about a diverse range of media audiences; media forms, including television, newspapers, radio, magazines, video games, mobile media, and the internet; and media institutions and professional practices, as well as questions of media ownership, control and regulation.

List of contents

Introduction: Re-Imagining Media and Gender  PART I: Her/Histories  1. Media and the Representation of Gender  2. Mass Media Representation of Gendered Violence  3. Lone Wolves: Masculinity, Cinema and the Man Alone  4. To Communicate is Human; To Chat is Female: The Feminization of U.S. Media Work  5. Rediscovering 20^th Century Feminist Audience Research  6. Historical Mapping Contemporary Intersectional Feminist Media Studies  7. Sexualities/Queer Identities  8. Gender, Media and Trans/National Spaces  Part II: Media Industries, Labor, and Policy  9. Women and Media Control: Feminist Interrogations at the Macro-level  10. Risk, Innovation, and Gender in Media Conglomerates  11. Putting Gender in the Mix: Employment, Participation and Role Expectations in the Music Industries  12. Gender Inequality in Cultural Industries  13. Shifting Boundaries: Gender, Labor, and New Information and Communication Technology  14. Gendering the Commodity Audience in Social Media  15. Youthful White Male Industry Seeks "Fun"-Loving Middle-Aged Women for Video Games: No Strings Attached  16. Boys are... Girls are....: How Children's Media and Merchandizing Construct Gender  17. Girls' and Boys' Experiences of Online Risk and Safety  18. Holy Grail or Poisoned Chalice? Three Generations of Men's Magazines  19. Making Public Policy in the Digital Age: The Sex Industry as a Political Actor  20. Gender and Digital Policy: From Global Information Infrastructure to Internet Governance  21. Gender and Media Activism: Alternative Feminist Media in Europe  22. Between Legitimacy and Political Efficacy: Feminist Counter-Publics and the Internet in China  Part III: Images and Representations across Texts and Genres  23. Buying and Selling Sex: Sexualization, Commerce and Gender  24. Class, Gender and the Docusoap: The Only Way is Essex  25. Society's Emerging Femininities: Neoliberal, Postfeminist and Hybrid Identities on Television in South Africa  26. A Nice Bit of Skirt and the Talking Head: Sex, Politics and News  27. Transgender, Transmedia, Transnationality: Chaz Bono in Documentary and Dancing with the Stars  28. Celebrity, Gossip, Privacy and Scandal  29. "Shameless Mums" and Universal Pedophiles: Sexualization and Commodification of Children  30. Glances, Dances, Romances: An Overview of Gendered Sexual Narratives in Teen Drama Series  31. Smoothing the Wrinkles: Hollywood, "Successful Aging" and the New Visibility of Older Female Stars  32. Globalization, Beauty Regimes, and Mediascapes in the New India  33. Perfect Bodies, Imperfect Messages: Media Coverage of Cosmetic Surgery and Ideal Beauty  34. Narrative Pleasure in Homeland: The Competing Femininities of "Rogue Agents" and "Terror Wives"  35. Above the Fold and Beyond the Veil: Islamophobia in Western Media  36. Sport, Media and the Gender-Based Insult  Part IV: Media Audiences, Users, and Prosumers  37. Subjects of Capacity? Reality TV and Young Women  38. Telenovelas, Gender and Genre  39. Gendering and Selling the Female News Audience in a Digital Age  40. Looking Beyond Representation: Situating the Significance of Gender Portrayal within Game Play  41. Textual Orientation: Queer Female Fandom Online  42. Delivering the Male - And More: Fandom and Media Sport  43. Men's Use of Pornography  44. Gender and Social Media: Sexism, Empowerment or the Irrelevance of Gender?  45. Slippery Subjects: Gender, Meaning and the Bollywood Audience  46. Asian Women as Audiences, Asian Popular Culture and Media Globalization  47. Women as Radio Audiences in South Africa  48. Reading Girlhood: Opportunities for Social Literacy  49. Investigating Users' Responses to Dove's "Real Beauty" Strategy: Feminism, Freedom and Facebook  50. Feminism in a Postfeminist World: Women Discuss who's "Hot" - And Why We Care - On the Collegiate "Anonymous Confession Board"  51. Gendered Networked Visualities: Locative Camera Phone Cultures in Seoul, South Korea  52. Gendering the "Arab Spring:" Arab Women Journalists/Activists, "Cyberfeminism," and the Socio-Political Revolution  Part V: Gendered Media Futures and the Future of Gender  53. Latinas on Television and Film: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Inclusion  54. Intersectionality, Digital Identities and Migrant Youths: Moroccan-Dutch Youths as Digital Space Invaders  55. Feminist Debates about the Sexualization of Culture  56. Post Post Feminism  57. Policing the Crisis of Masculinity: Media and Masculinity at the Dawn of the New Century  58. Glassy Architectures in Journalism  59. Online Anti-Sexism Political Action in the UK and USA: The Importance of Collaborative Anger for Social Change 

About the author

Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin

Report

"This ambitious project investigates longstanding gender concerns in light of today's media landscape. Its internationally diverse authors analyze production and reception of recent media texts-journalism, film, reality TV, gaming, music, sports and more-within a postfeminist, neoliberal, and networked popular culture. They also consider consequences of broader shifts in media ecology, such as unequal Internet access that exacerbates discrimination and the roles of social media in both empowering and commodifying women. Scholars will find a wide range of timely case studies and provocative ideas in this rich resource."

Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism, Temple University, USA
"The editors have put together a valuable compendium of essays from some of the leading scholars in the field. The anthology offers a diverse array of perspectives -theoretical, political, and methodological - on the vital, complex, and ever-evolving sub-discipline of gender and media studies."
Meenakshi Gigi Durham, University of Iowa, USA
"With this Routledge Companion, three prominent feminist scholars have master-minded an important collection of chapters on gender and media contributed by accomplished scholars. This is truly a companion for the novice scholar needing an entrée into the vast and confusing literature that has grown over the past several decades and that ranges from theory on gender, sexuality, masculinity, intersectionality, transnationalism, and globalism to issues of violence, activism, pornography, news, gaming, social media, and sports. For the advanced scholar, the volume takes stock of where we have been and analyzes why we haven't arrived yet. A particular strength is the attention to reports from countries around the world and essays that don't let us forget the politics, economics, labor, production, and creative appropriation that must be accounted for in our approach to gender and media. We have the foundation documented for us. The next step is to imagine the world we want to live in and the communication systems we will need to make that world possible."

Lana F. Rakow, Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, USA
"Dedicated to an "extensive examination of a wide array of contemporary critical perspectives and diverse contexts," the collection is essential for libraries and for those who study children, popular culture, psychology, sexual orientation, sociology, women and gender issues, and other areas of inquiry."
Jan Whitt, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
"[This collective volume] will prove to be of invaluable help to anyone - faculty staff and students - involved in teaching and working on this topic... Overall, [it] is an excellent effort that will find a natural fit in many course syllabuses in the fields of both media and women's studies."
Iolanda Tortajada, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia (Cardiff University Carter
• Assisted by: Cynthia Carter (Editor), Lisa Mclaughlin (Editor), Linda Steiner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9781138849129
• ISBN: 978-1-138-84912-9
• No. of pages: 670
• Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries