[ecrea] New book: The Gender and Media Reader

The Gender and Media Reader
Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney
Published by Routledge

available August 10, 2011

To access table of contents and request a complimentary exam copy,
visit http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415993463/


The Gender and Media Reader is an essential text for those interested
in gender and media studies, its main topics, debates, and
theoretical approaches. The primary objective of this collection is
to expand readers' knowledge of how gender operates within media
culture through engagement with foundational writings as well as more
contemporary research in this field. Taking a multiperspectival
approach that considers gender broadly and examines media texts
alongside their production and consumption, The Gender and Media
Reader enables readers' critical thinking about how gender is
constructed, contested, and subverted in different sites within media
culture. Along with the main introduction, individual section
introductions facilitate readers' understanding of the development of
gender and media studies by contextualizing the various topics,
debates, and theoretical approaches that have shaped it, as well as
by highlighting current trends.

Mary Celeste Kearney is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film
and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and editor of
Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter
Lang, 2011). She is currently completing work on Power Chords and
Groupie Chicks: Gender in Rock Culture, forthcoming from Oxford
University Press.



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