Media, Gender and Identity
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Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality.David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities.The book includes:a comparison of gender representations in the past and today, from James Bond to Ugly Bettyan introduction to key theorists such as Judith Butler, Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault an outline of creative approaches, where identities are explored with video, drawing, or Lego bricksa Companion Website with extra articles, interviews and selected links, at: www.theoryhead.com. Angela McRobbie ...an exuberant account of the changing landscape of popular media and culture. David Gauntlett shows how gender politics are reinvented for popular consumption, in ways which illustrate the media alert to its own critics but also influenced by new ways of thinking and effected by the introduction of new constraints.
Illustrations1 Introduction 12 Some background debates 223 Representations of gender in the past 464 Representations of gender today 625 Giddens, modernity and self-identity 996 Michel Foucault: discourses and lifestyles 1257 Queer theory and fluid identities 1458 Men's magazines and modern masculinities 1649 Women's magazines and female identities 19010 Directions for living: role models and self-help discourses 22311 Exploring identity stories 25412 Conclusions 278Notes 290References 291Index 308
