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Title The Routledge companion to media and gender / edited by Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Lisa McLaughlin
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge companions
Routledge companions.
Contents Part I. Her/histories -- part II. Media industries, labor, and policy -- part III. Images and representations across texts and genres -- part IV. Media audiences, users, and prosumers -- part V. Gendered media futures and the future of gender
Summary "The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender offers a comprehensive examination of media and gender studies, charting its histories, investigating ongoing controversies, and assessing future trends. The 59 chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research. The Companion includes the following features: With each chapter addressing a distinct, concrete set of issues, the volume includes research from around the world to engage readers in a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives. Authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field, including postfeminism, sexual violence, masculinity, media industries, queer identities, video games, digital policy, media activism, sexualization, docusoaps, teen drama, cosmetic surgery, media Islamophobia, sport, telenovelas, news audiences, pornography, and social and mobile media. A range of academic disciplines inform exploration of key issues around production and policymaking, representation, audience engagement, and the place of gender in media studies. The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender is an essential guide to the central ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping media and gender research"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sex role in mass media.
Mass media and culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Mass media and culture
Sex role in mass media
Geschlechterrolle
Geschlecht
Massenmedien
Massamedia.
Sekseverschillen.
Rôle selon le sexe -- Dans les médias.
Identité sexuelle -- Dans les médias.
Études sur le genre.
Médias et culture.
Könsroller i massmedia.
Massmedia och kultur.
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Carter, Cynthia, 1959- editor.
Steiner, Linda, editor.
McLaughlin, Lisa, editor.
ISBN 9781135076948
1135076944
9780203066911
020306691X
9781135076955
1135076952
1306197511
9781306197519