Women in Popular Culture: Representation, Meaning, and Media
"Marian Meyers's latest anthology takes a new look at a wide range of contemporary images of women within the media to examine the meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture. This book explores what the representation of women says about their positions in society, the factors that shape representation, and the roles that gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation play within the mediated portrayal of women." Drawing primarily on qualitative textual analysis of...
Search in google:
"Marian Meyers's latest anthology takes a new look at a wide range of contemporary images of women within the media to examine the meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture. This book explores what the representation of women says about their positions in society, the factors that shape representation, and the roles that gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation play within the mediated portrayal of women." Drawing primarily on qualitative textual analysis of film, reality TV, advertising, the news, children's programming, soap operas, TV drama, and more, this book situates the representation of women in popular culture along a continuum ranging from stereotypical portrayals that underscore women's bodies as pornographic spectacle to more positive and hopeful depictions. And it argues that the contemporary portrayals of women within popular culture are shaped by two major trends: the mainstreaming of pornography and its resultant hypersexualization of women and girls, and the commodification of those images for a global market.
Pt. I Introduction1 Women in Popular Culture: All Sexed Up and Global to Go Marian Meyers Meyers, Marian 3Pt. II The Pornogrification of Women2 A (Bad) Habit of Thinking Challenging and Changing the Pornographic Worldview Jane Caputi Caputi, Jane. 293 Lolita Lives!: An Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Adolescent Girls in Fashion Advertising Debra Merskin Merskin, Debra L. 57Pt. III Bodies and Difference4 NippleMania: Black Feminism, Corporeal Fragmentation, and the Politics of Public Consumption Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly Brittany Cooper Cooper, Brittany 735 "Made to be the Maid?": An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television Rosa E. Soto Soto, Rosa E. 856 The Multiply Transgressive Body of Anna Nicole Smith Karen C. Pitcher Pitcher, Karen C. 101Pt. IV Hybridity and the Global Market7 Climbing the Great Wall of Feminism: Disney's Mulan Jill Birnie Henke Henke, Jill Birnie 1238 Bollywood and Globalization: Reassembling Gender and Nation in Kal Ho Na Ho Anjali Ram Ram, Anjali 1379 "I am Cenicienta (Cinderella) and I'm Choosing My Prince": Reality TV Adapts an Old Fairy Tale for the New Millennium Susana Kaiser Kaiser, Susana 151Pt. V Limited Resistance10 Structuring the Status Quo: The L Word and Queer Female Acceptability Rebecca Kern Kern, Rebecca 17111 The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Media S. Elizabeth Bird Bird, S. Elizabeth. 185Pt. VI Finding Progress12 Power(Puff) Feminism: The Powerpuff Girls As a Site of Strength and Collective Action in the Third Wave Rebecca C. Hains Hains, Rebecca C. 21113Feminism And Daytime Soap Operas Elayne Rapping Rapping, Elayne 23714 The Dialectical Relationship of Women and Media Carolyn M. Byerly Byerly, Carolyn M. 257About the Contributors 277Author Index 281Subject Index 287
