ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |81 pages
Her/Histories
part |154 pages
Media Industries, Labor, and Policy
chapter |10 pages
Putting gender in the mix
chapter |10 pages
Shifting boundaries
chapter |11 pages
Gender and digital policy
chapter |12 pages
Between legitimacy and political efficacy
part |149 pages
Images and Representations Across Texts and Genres
chapter |10 pages
Society's emerging femininities
chapter |11 pages
Transgender, transmedia, transnationality
chapter |11 pages
“Shameless mums” and universal pedophiles
chapter |10 pages
Glances, dances, romances
chapter |10 pages
Smoothing the wrinkles
chapter |11 pages
Perfect bodies, imperfect messages
chapter |10 pages
Narrative pleasure in Homeland
part |169 pages
Media Audiences, Users, and Prosumers
chapter |10 pages
Looking beyond representation
chapter |10 pages
Investigating users' responses to Dove's “real beauty” strategy
chapter |11 pages
Feminism in a postfeminist world
chapter |11 pages
Gendered networked visualities
chapter |11 pages
Gendering the Arab Spring
part |77 pages
Gendered Media Futures and the Future of Gender