Media, Gender and Identity An Introduction

Media, Gender and Identity is an accessible introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. It includes an assessment of the different ways in which gender and identity have previously been studied, and provides new ways for thinking about the media's influence on gender and sexuality.David Gauntlett explores the gender landscape of contemporary media and draws on recent theories of identity negotiation to understand the place of popular media in people's lives. Discussing a range of examples from films such as Charlie's Angels , What Women Want , and Tomb Raider , men's and women's magazines from FHM and Maxim to Cosmopolitan and Glamour , primetime television programmes, and pop music, Media, Gender and Identity shows how the media are used in the shaping of individual self-identities. Media, Gender and Identity includes:A comparison of gender representations in the past and today, with many examples drawn from 1998-2002An introduction to theorists such as Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault and Judith ButlerA discussion of queer theory and the idea of gender as performanceA study of 'girl power' role models such as Destiny's Child and Britney SpearsA website with extra articles, interviews and selected links, at www.theoryhead.com/genderGauntlett, David is the author of 'Media, Gender and Identity An Introduction', published 2002 under ISBN 9780415189606 and ISBN 0415189608.