From the Publisher

Media, Gender and Identity is an accessible introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. It begins with an assessment of the different ways in which gender and identity have previously been studied and provides new ways for thinking about the media's influence on gender and sexuality.

David Gauntlett explores the gender landscape of contemporary media and draws on recent theories of identity negotiation and queer theory to understand the place of popular media in people's lives. Using a range of examples from films, television programs, and men's and women's magazines, Media, Gender and Identity shows how the media are used in the shaping of individual self-identity. The book is supported by a regularly updated website at: www.theoryhead.com/gender.

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.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0415189608
  
• ISBN-13: 9780415189606
• Format: Textbook Paperback, 278pp
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
• Pub. Date: September 2002
• Sales Rank: 295,651
• Age Range: Young Adult

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