Book description
The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media
offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist
between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so,
showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication
practice and theory.
- Brings together a collection of new, cutting-edge research
exploring a number of different facets of the broad relationship
between gender and media
- Moves beyond associating gender with man/woman and instead
considers the relationship between the construction of gender norms,
biological sex and the mediation of sex and sexuality
- Offers genuinely new insights into the complicated and complex set
of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media
- Essay topics range from the continuing sexism of TV advertising to
ways in which the internet is facilitating the (re)invention of our
sexual selves.
Karen Ross
is Professor of Media and Public Communication at the University of
Liverpool. She has written extensively on the relationships between
women and media and between the media and the public. Her recent
publications include
Women and Media: International Perspectives
(with Carolyn Byerly, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004),
Women and Media: A
Critical Introduction
(with Carolyn Byerly, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006),
Rethinking Media
Education: Critical Pedagogy and Identity Politics
(edited with Anita Nowak and Sue Abel, 2007),
Gendered Media
(2009), and
The Media and the Public
(with Stephen Coleman, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). She is the founding
editor of the ICA/Wiley-Blackwell journal
Communication, Culture
& Critique
.
