Gender and the Media

Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. 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. 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 the twenty-first century, partly in response to feminist, queer and anti-racist critique. Gender and the Media is also concerned with the theoretical tools available for analysing representations. A range of approaches from semiotics to postcolonial theory are discussed, and Gill asks how useful notions such as objectification, backlash, and positive images are for making sense of gender in today's Western media. Finally, Gender and the Media also raises questions about cultural politics - namely, what forms of critique and intervention are effective at a moment when ironic quotation marks seem to protect much media content from criticism and when much media content - from Sex and the City to revenge adverts - can be labelled postfeminist. This is a book that will be of particular interest to students and scholars in gender and media studies, as well as those in sociology and cultural studies more generally.

Politics & Social Sciences

Gill, Rosalind

Philosophy

Polity

Social Sciences

Gender and Creative Labour presents a collection of readings that reflect the latest research related to employment positions in a range of creative industries to show the gender implications of creative labour under contemporary neoliberal economic policies.   Features contributions from a range of international experts Includes studies from the US, UK, Oceania and Europe Reveals the implications of contemporary femininities and masculinities for the precarious employment created under neoliberalism Addresses the additional burdens that women face in creative occupations 

Gender and Creative Labour (Sociological Review Monographs)

Business & Money

Taylor,Stephanie

Conor, Bridget

Economics

Wiley/Blackwell

Confidence Culture

Product Description In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill draw on Foucault’s notion of technologies of self to demonstrate how “confidence culture” demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic oppression. Rather, confidence culture suggests that women—along with people of color, the disabled, and other marginalized groups—are responsible for their own conditions. Rejecting confidence culture’s remaking of feminism along individualistic and neoliberal lines, Orgad and Gill explore alternative articulations of feminism that go beyond the confidence imperative. Review “Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill’s brilliant study of the intersections within and between ‘confidence culture’ and neoliberal capitalism makes a vital contribution to how we think about gender, the body, and media. Complicating analyses on both the media representation and the user applications of the contemporary confidence movement, this crucially important book will appeal to media studies, American studies, and feminist scholars as well as a wide public audience.”―Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of, Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny Review “You will be cheering this brilliant book on from the very first pages. Ground down by inequities at work, impossible thinness and beauty ideals, or fears that you’re not a good enough mother? Buck up, girls, it’s not structural change we need: you just need a confidence boost! Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill detail this psychological turn in neoliberalism, in which women’s very subjectivities must be disciplined to serve patriarchal capitalism. Absolutely timely and a must read!” -- Susan J. Douglas, Professor of Communication and Media, University of Michigan About the Author Shani Orgad is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality. Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London, and author of Gender and the Media.

Orgad, Shani

Duke University Press Books

Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down. The book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and/or pleasurable. This bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.

Barker, Meg-John

Harvey, Laura

Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media

Compared with previous generations, young people today live in a world where images of women's bodies are ubiquitous. Social media are&nbsp;replete&nbsp;with images of 'perfection'. But many of these images are&nbsp;unrealistic&nbsp;and&nbsp;unattainable&nbsp;and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough... In&nbsp;Perfect, Rosalind Gill offers a rich and compelling analysis of young people's lives on social media. Challenging polarised perspectives that see young people as either passive victims of social media or as savvy digital natives, Gill highlights young people's paradoxical and ambivalent relationships with social media. The book reveals the pleasures that come from getting likes and followers and from feeling connected to friends, but it also reveals the anxiety that comes from posting material,&nbsp;and&nbsp;from&nbsp;the wider culture of 'haters'. Importantly, the book exposes the significant pressure young people feel to post the 'perfect' image and their sophistication in being able to deconstruct such images. As Gill shows, they strive to present their own version of&nbsp;perfection,&nbsp;which extends beyond appearance to&nbsp;images&nbsp;that display the 'right' kinds of feelings and attitudes. Grounded in young women's own words and stories, the book, above all, reveals three overriding and powerful experiences that young women feel on social media: the feeling of being watched all the time; the fear of getting things wrong; and the pressure to live up to an ideal&nbsp;of being 'perfect'. &nbsp; Written with passion and empathy,&nbsp;Perfect&nbsp;is&nbsp;a wake-up call for everyone concerned by the impact of social media on young people. It is also essential reading for students and scholars in&nbsp;media and communications,&nbsp;psychology, cultural studies, sociology, and gender.

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Le Francais Dans le Village Global: Manuel de Lecture Et Decriture (French Edition)

History

Furgiuele, Rosanna

Europe

Canadian Scholars' Press

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