Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xix
Editor’s Introduction xx
Part I Mediated Women 1
1 The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship 3
Carolyn M. Byerly
2 Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social
Understandings 20
Claudia Bucciferro
3 The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press
Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria 35
Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Stover
4 Gossip Blogs and ‘Baby Bumps’: The New Visual Spectacle of
Female Celebrity in Gossip Media 53
Erin Meyers
5 Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of
Brazilian Adolescent Girls 71
Ilana Eleá
6 Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and
Postfeminist Discourse 88
Limor Shifman and Dafna Lemish
Part II Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables 105
7 Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man 107
Jeffery P. Dennis
8 Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male
Protagonist 118
Stuart Price
9 Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes
in Genre Films 135
Guido Ipsen
10 Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective
Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11 157
Sarah Godfrey and Hannah Hamad
11 Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos
174
Lynne Hibberd
12 Studio5ive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing
Masculine Identity 189
Claire Harrison
Part III Queering the Pitch 205
13 No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New
Media Landscape 207
Katherine Sender
14 The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony 226
Julie Scanlon
15 Andro- phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word
Audiences 241
Rebecca Kern
16 Questioning Queer Audiences: Exploring Diversity in Lesbian
and Gay Men’s Media Uses and Readings 260
Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons
17 ‘In Touch’ with the Female Body: Cinema, Sport, and Lesbian
Representability 277
Katharina Lindner
18 Why Doesn’t your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean,
Fantasy Blockbusters, and Contemporary Queer Theory 294
Martin Fradley
19 Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Coming Out
in US Teen Television Drama Series 313
Susan Berridge
20 Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses 326
Matthew Heinz
21 Transgendered Saints and Harlots: Reproduction of Popular
Brazilian Transgender Stereotypes through Performance on Stage, on
Screen, and in Everyday Life 344
Johannes Sjöberg
Part IV Women, Men, and Gender 363
22 Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social
Construction and Beyond 365
Cynthia Carter
23 Colin Won’t Drink out of a Pink Cup 383
Barbara Mitra and Jenny Lewin- Jones
24 Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read
the ‘Knowing Wink’ in Advertising 401
Sue Abel
25 Communication as Commodification: Video Technology and the
Gendered Gaze 419
Corinna Chong, Heather Molyneaux, and Hélène Fournier
26 Dutch Moroccan Girls Performing their Selves in Instant
Messaging Spaces 436
Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi
Part V All about Sex 455
27 Sex and the Media 457
Feona Attwood
28 Deliciously Consumable: The Uses and Abuses of Irony in
‘Sex-Trafficking’ Campaign Films 470
Jane Arthurs
29 The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover, and Mediated Sex
487
Laura Harvey and Rosalind Gill
30 Enacting Bodies: Online Dating and New Media Practices
502
Begonya Enguix and Elisenda Ardévol
31 Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era 516
Panayiota Tsatsou
32 Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual
Desire 535
John Mercer
Index 552
Karen Ross is Professor of Media and Public Communication at the University of Liverpool. Her recent publications include Rethinking Media Education: Critical Pedagogy and Identity Politics (edited with Anita Nowak and Sue Abel, 2007), Gendered Media (2009), and The Media and the Public (with Stephen Coleman, Wiley Blackwell, 2010). She is the founding editor of the ICA/Wiley Blackwell journal Communication, Culture & Critique.
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