The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 670 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 9781138849129 (pbk); 9780203066911 (ebook)
Signature commbox: 10-Gender-E 2015
"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." (Back cover)
Introduction: re-imagining media and gender / Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, and Lisa Mclaughlin, 1
I. HER/HISTORIES
1 Media and the representation of gender / Margaret Gallagher, 23
2 Mass media representation of gendered violence / Lisa M. Cuklanz, 32
3 Lone wolves: masculinity, cinema, and the man alone / Tim Edwards, 42
4 To communicate is human; to chat is female: the feminization of US media work / Vicki Mayer, 51
5 Rediscovering twentieth-century feminist audience research / Joke Hermes, 61
6 Historically mapping contemporary intersectional feminist media studies / Isabel Molina-Guzmán and Lisa Marie Cacho, 71
7 Sexualities/queer identities / Audrey Yue, 81
8 Gender, media, and trans/national spaces / Radha S. Hegde, 92
II. MEDIA INDUSTRIES, LABOR, AND POLICY
9 Women and media control: feminist interrogations at the macro-level / Carolyn M. Byerly, 105
10 Risk, innovation, and gender in media conglomerates / Ben Aslinger, 116
11 Putting gender in the mix: employment, participation, and role expectations in the music industries / Marion Leonard, 127
12 Gender inequality in culture industries / Denise D. Bielby, 137
13 Shifting boundaries: gender, labor, and new information and communication technology / Ursula Huws, 147
14 Gendering the commodity audience in social media / Tamara Shepherd, 157
15 Youthful white male industry seeks "fun"-loving middle-aged women for video games-no strings attached / Shira Chess, 168
16 Boys are … girls are … : how children's media and merchandizing construct gender / Dafna Lemish, 179
17 Girls' and boys' experiences of online risk and safety / Sonia Livingstone, Veronika Kalmus, and Kairi Talves, 190
18 Holy grail or poisoned chalice? Three generations of men's magazines / Annabelle Mooney, 201
19 Making public policy in the digital age: the sex industry as a political actor / Katharine Sarikakis, 211
20 Gender and digital policy: from global information infrastructure to internet governance / Leslie Regan Shade, 222
21 Gender and media activism: alternative feminist media in Europe / Elke Zobl and Rosa Reitsamer, 233
22 Between legitimacy and political efficacy: feminist counter-publics and the internet in China / Iam-Chong Ip and Oi-Wan Lam, 245
III. IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS TEXTS AND GENRES
23 Buying and selling sex: sexualization, commerce, and gender / Karen Boyle, 259
24 Class, gender, and the docusoap: The Only Way Is Essex / Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi, 269
25 Society's emerging femininities: neoliberal, postfeminist, and hybrid identities on television in South Africa / Shelley-Jean Bradfield, 280
26 A nice bit of skirt and the talking head: sex, politics, and news / Karen Ross, 290
27 Transgender, transmedia, transnationality: Chaz Bono in documentary and Dancing with the Stars / Katherine Sender, 300
28 Celebrity, gossip, privacy, and scandal / Milly Williamson, 311
29 "Shameless mums" and universal pedophiles: sexualization and commodification of children / Sara Bragg, 321
30 Glances, dances, romances: an overview of gendered sexual narratives in teen drama series / Susan Berridge, 332
31 Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, "successful aging," and the new visibility of older female stars / Josephine Dolan, 342
32 Perfect bodies, imperfect messages: media coverage of cosmetic surgery and ideal beauty / J. Robyn Goodman, 352
33 Globalization, beauty regimes, and mediascapes in the New India / Radhika Parameswaran, 363
34 Narrative pleasure in Homeland: the competing femininities of "rogue agents" and "terror wives" / Gargi Bhattacharyya, 374
35 Above the fold and beyond the veil: Islamophobia in Western media / Nahed Eltantawy, 384
36 Sport, media, and the gender-based insult / David Rowe, 395
IV. MEDIA AUDIENCES, USERS, AND PROSUMERS
37 Subjects of capacity? Reality TV and young women / Laurie Ouellette, 409
38 Telenovelas, gender, and genre / Esther Hamburger, 419
39 Gendering and selling the female news audience in a digital age / Dustin Harp, 430
40 Looking beyond representation: situating the significance of gender portrayal within game play / Christine Daviault and Gareth Schott, 440
41 Textual orientation: queer female fandom online / Julie Levin Russo, 450
42 Delivering the male-and more: fandom and media sport / Toby Miller, 461
43 Men's use of pornography / Matthew b. Ezzell, 473
44 Gender and social media: sexism, empowerment, or the irrelevance of gender? / Tanja Carstensen, 483
45 Slippery subjects: gender, meaning, and the Bollywood audience / Shakuntala Banaji, 493
46 Asian women audiences, Asian popular culture, and media globalization / Youna Kim, 503
47 Women as radio audiences in Africa / Tanja Bosch, 514
48 Reading girlhood: opportunities for social literacy / Dawn H. Currie, 523
49 Investigating users' responses to Dove's "real beauty" strategy: feminism, freedom, and Facebook / Dara Persis Murray, 533
50 Feminism in a postfeminist world: women discuss who's "hot"-and why we care-on the collegiate "Anonymous Confession Board" / Andrea L. Press and Francesca Tripodi, 543
51 Gendered networked visualities: locative camera phone cultures in Seoul, South Korea / Larissa Hjorth, 554
52 Gendering the Arab Spring: Arab women journalists/activists, "cyberfeminism," and the sociopolitical revolution / Sahar Khamis, 565
V. GENDERED MEDIA FUTURES AND THE FUTURE OF GENDER
53 Latinas on television and film: exploring the limits and possibilities of inclusion / Angharad N. Valdivia, 579
54 Postfeminist sexual culture / Rosalind Gill, 589
55 Post-postfeminism / Catharine Lumby, 600
56 Policing the crisis of masculinity: media and masculinity at the dawn of the new century / Brenton J. Malin, 610
57 Glassy architectures in journalism / Linda Steiner, 620
58 Intersectionality, digital identities, and migrant youths: Moroccan Dutch youths as digital space invaders / Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, 632
59 Online popular anti-sexism political action in the UK and USA: the importance of collaborative anger for social change / Cynthia Carter, 643
I. HER/HISTORIES
1 Media and the representation of gender / Margaret Gallagher, 23
2 Mass media representation of gendered violence / Lisa M. Cuklanz, 32
3 Lone wolves: masculinity, cinema, and the man alone / Tim Edwards, 42
4 To communicate is human; to chat is female: the feminization of US media work / Vicki Mayer, 51
5 Rediscovering twentieth-century feminist audience research / Joke Hermes, 61
6 Historically mapping contemporary intersectional feminist media studies / Isabel Molina-Guzmán and Lisa Marie Cacho, 71
7 Sexualities/queer identities / Audrey Yue, 81
8 Gender, media, and trans/national spaces / Radha S. Hegde, 92
II. MEDIA INDUSTRIES, LABOR, AND POLICY
9 Women and media control: feminist interrogations at the macro-level / Carolyn M. Byerly, 105
10 Risk, innovation, and gender in media conglomerates / Ben Aslinger, 116
11 Putting gender in the mix: employment, participation, and role expectations in the music industries / Marion Leonard, 127
12 Gender inequality in culture industries / Denise D. Bielby, 137
13 Shifting boundaries: gender, labor, and new information and communication technology / Ursula Huws, 147
14 Gendering the commodity audience in social media / Tamara Shepherd, 157
15 Youthful white male industry seeks "fun"-loving middle-aged women for video games-no strings attached / Shira Chess, 168
16 Boys are … girls are … : how children's media and merchandizing construct gender / Dafna Lemish, 179
17 Girls' and boys' experiences of online risk and safety / Sonia Livingstone, Veronika Kalmus, and Kairi Talves, 190
18 Holy grail or poisoned chalice? Three generations of men's magazines / Annabelle Mooney, 201
19 Making public policy in the digital age: the sex industry as a political actor / Katharine Sarikakis, 211
20 Gender and digital policy: from global information infrastructure to internet governance / Leslie Regan Shade, 222
21 Gender and media activism: alternative feminist media in Europe / Elke Zobl and Rosa Reitsamer, 233
22 Between legitimacy and political efficacy: feminist counter-publics and the internet in China / Iam-Chong Ip and Oi-Wan Lam, 245
III. IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS TEXTS AND GENRES
23 Buying and selling sex: sexualization, commerce, and gender / Karen Boyle, 259
24 Class, gender, and the docusoap: The Only Way Is Essex / Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi, 269
25 Society's emerging femininities: neoliberal, postfeminist, and hybrid identities on television in South Africa / Shelley-Jean Bradfield, 280
26 A nice bit of skirt and the talking head: sex, politics, and news / Karen Ross, 290
27 Transgender, transmedia, transnationality: Chaz Bono in documentary and Dancing with the Stars / Katherine Sender, 300
28 Celebrity, gossip, privacy, and scandal / Milly Williamson, 311
29 "Shameless mums" and universal pedophiles: sexualization and commodification of children / Sara Bragg, 321
30 Glances, dances, romances: an overview of gendered sexual narratives in teen drama series / Susan Berridge, 332
31 Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, "successful aging," and the new visibility of older female stars / Josephine Dolan, 342
32 Perfect bodies, imperfect messages: media coverage of cosmetic surgery and ideal beauty / J. Robyn Goodman, 352
33 Globalization, beauty regimes, and mediascapes in the New India / Radhika Parameswaran, 363
34 Narrative pleasure in Homeland: the competing femininities of "rogue agents" and "terror wives" / Gargi Bhattacharyya, 374
35 Above the fold and beyond the veil: Islamophobia in Western media / Nahed Eltantawy, 384
36 Sport, media, and the gender-based insult / David Rowe, 395
IV. MEDIA AUDIENCES, USERS, AND PROSUMERS
37 Subjects of capacity? Reality TV and young women / Laurie Ouellette, 409
38 Telenovelas, gender, and genre / Esther Hamburger, 419
39 Gendering and selling the female news audience in a digital age / Dustin Harp, 430
40 Looking beyond representation: situating the significance of gender portrayal within game play / Christine Daviault and Gareth Schott, 440
41 Textual orientation: queer female fandom online / Julie Levin Russo, 450
42 Delivering the male-and more: fandom and media sport / Toby Miller, 461
43 Men's use of pornography / Matthew b. Ezzell, 473
44 Gender and social media: sexism, empowerment, or the irrelevance of gender? / Tanja Carstensen, 483
45 Slippery subjects: gender, meaning, and the Bollywood audience / Shakuntala Banaji, 493
46 Asian women audiences, Asian popular culture, and media globalization / Youna Kim, 503
47 Women as radio audiences in Africa / Tanja Bosch, 514
48 Reading girlhood: opportunities for social literacy / Dawn H. Currie, 523
49 Investigating users' responses to Dove's "real beauty" strategy: feminism, freedom, and Facebook / Dara Persis Murray, 533
50 Feminism in a postfeminist world: women discuss who's "hot"-and why we care-on the collegiate "Anonymous Confession Board" / Andrea L. Press and Francesca Tripodi, 543
51 Gendered networked visualities: locative camera phone cultures in Seoul, South Korea / Larissa Hjorth, 554
52 Gendering the Arab Spring: Arab women journalists/activists, "cyberfeminism," and the sociopolitical revolution / Sahar Khamis, 565
V. GENDERED MEDIA FUTURES AND THE FUTURE OF GENDER
53 Latinas on television and film: exploring the limits and possibilities of inclusion / Angharad N. Valdivia, 579
54 Postfeminist sexual culture / Rosalind Gill, 589
55 Post-postfeminism / Catharine Lumby, 600
56 Policing the crisis of masculinity: media and masculinity at the dawn of the new century / Brenton J. Malin, 610
57 Glassy architectures in journalism / Linda Steiner, 620
58 Intersectionality, digital identities, and migrant youths: Moroccan Dutch youths as digital space invaders / Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, 632
59 Online popular anti-sexism political action in the UK and USA: the importance of collaborative anger for social change / Cynthia Carter, 643
