Gender and the Media

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1273-7

Hardcover

304 pages

January 2006, Polity

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Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media. the book offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates
Looks in-depth at five areas of media — talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances — to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the 21st century
Offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates
Provides students with an introduction to the theoretical tools available for analysing representations
Gender and the Media is a core course in media and cultural studies and yet there is no good up to date textbook currently available. This book fills that gap