ABSTRACT
Media are a key site for the construction, negotiation and opposition of gender, sexual identities and performances at a social and cultural level. This chapter focuses on diverse expressions of sexuality in media reception, production and representation. It explores, on the one hand, aspects of the changing social and sexual landscape; and on the other hand, how media construct gender and age through censorious or polarised perspectives. In order to explore gender, sexuality and age as social and cultural constructions, we draw on the concept of intersectionality that identifies a mode of analysis integral to feminist, gender and sexuality studies based on the idea that ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age and other identity markers are mutually constitutive. In addition to geographical diversity, we have strived for diversity among the authors in terms of age and academic positions. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
