Del 26 i serien Advances in Gender Research

Gender and the Media

Women's Places

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvMarcia Texler Segal,Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos

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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 women. Networks of the cyberbullying of women of color are rendered graphically and the agency claimed by women in Western Sahara refugee camps is shown in photos. How college women and men respond to the masculinity reflected in hip-hop lyrics and videos, and what it feels like to be a woman in a comic book store are conveyed in excerpts from interviews. Contributors detail how publications discuss rape in India and trafficking in Moldova and ponder the absence of the topic of anorexia in U.S. cinema. Social change is reflected in how trade publications discuss the increasing number of women in the funeral industry. The relation of the local to the global and female invisibility is considered in an analysis of Portuguese punk fanzines. An examination of advice books for American tween girls documents not only the subject matter, but also the racial, ethnic and religious homogeneity and heteronormativity assumed in the text and illustrations. Finally, a comparison of the critical response to identical music recorded by female and male artists provides the opportunity to see the role gender plays in criticism of aesthetic materials.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-11-19
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt666 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAdvances in Gender Research
Antal sidor240
FörlagEmerald Publishing Limited
ISBN9781787543300

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Marcia Texler Segal is Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita at Indiana University Southeast, USA. She is co-editor of Emerald’s Advances in Gender Research book series and her publications include Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape (Oxford, 2007). She is Co-Chair of the Opportunities in Retirement Network of the American Sociological Association. Vasilikie Demos is Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Morris, USA. She is co-editor of Emerald’s Advances in Gender Research book series, and Sociologists for Women in Society Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She is a Past President of both the North Central Sociological Association and Sociologists for Women in Society, and recipient of the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award.

Introduction. GENDER AND THE MEDIA: WOMEN'S PLACES; Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal PART I: Agency Affirming Places Chapter 1. WAR, CULTURE AND AGENCY AMONG SAHRAWI WOMEN REFUGEES: A PHOTO-ESSAY; Amira Karaoud Chapter 2. FROM "OLD BOY" TO "GENDER PROGRESSIVE": THE SHIFTING GENDER STORY OF FUNERAL WORK IN TRADE PUBLICATIONS; Sarah B. Donley Chapter 3. PUNK FAIRYTALE: POPULAR MUSIC, MEDIA, AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF GENDER; Paula Guerra, Luiza Bittencourt and Gabriela Gelain Chapter 4. "TRAPPIN' AIN'T SHIT TO ME": HOW UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS CONSTRUCT MEANING AROUND RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY WITHIN HIP HOP; Andrea N. Hunt PART II: Overtly Hostile or Agency Denying Places Chapter 5. TRUTH, JUSTICE, BOOBS: GENDER IN COMIC BOOK CULTURE; Trisha L. Crawshaw Chapter 6. WHAT A B!TCH: CYBER AGGRESSION TOWARDS WOMEN OF COLOR; Diane Felmlee, Paulina Inara Rodis and Sara Chari Francisco Chapter 7. MAINSTREAMING GENDER, ENDANGERED, UNGENDERED? ANALYSIS OF MEDIA REPORTS OF THE 2012 CASE OF RAPE IN INDIA; Soma Chaudhuri, Preethi Krishnan and Mangala Subramaniam Chapter 8. IMAGES OF TRAFFICKED WOMEN: A CASE STUDY OF MEDIA AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCOURSE IN MOLDOVA, 2003-2008; Rodica Lisnic and Anna Zajicek PART III: Covertly Negating Places Chapter 9. MORTALITY SALIENCE, TERROR MANAGEMENT, AND HOLLYWOOD FILM: THEORIZING ON THE ABSENCE OF ANOREXIA AS A SUBJECT IN U.S. MAINSTREAM MOVIES; Tina L. Margolis, Julie Lauren Rones, and Ariela Algaze Chapter 10. WHO IS THE AMERICAN GIRL? ANALYZING DIFFERENCE IN AMERICAN GIRL ADVICE BOOKS; Victoria G. Velding and Alexis P. Hilling Chapter 11. GENDER AND CRITICAL EVALUATION IN POPULAR MUSIC; Vaughn Schmutz, Sarah H. Pollock, and Jordan S. Bendickson

This volume brings together 11 chapters by sociologists and communication and other specialists from the US, Brazil, and Portugal, who examine the various forms of women's place in media. They address agency-affirming places, such as funeral trade journal publications, Portuguese punk music, hip-hop, and photos of refugee camps; overtly hostile or agency-denying places, such as comic book culture, the internet, media coverage of protests in the aftermath of a rape case in India, and images of trafficked women; and covertly negating places in which women are not represented, such as the absence of anorexia in US mainstream movies, the absence of diversity in American Girl advice books, and critical music reviews.