Gender and the Media av Rosalind (King's College London) Gill

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Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, <i>Gender and the Media</i> offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. <br/><p><br/></p><p>Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where confident expressions of girl power sit alongside reports of epidemic levels of anorexia among young women, moral panics about the impact on men of idealized representations of the ''six-pack'', but near silence about the pervasive re-sexualization of women''s bodies, along with a growing use of irony and playfulness that render critique extremely difficult.<br/></p><p>The book 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 t