[ecrea] New Book Announcement - The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender

New from Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender
Edited by Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Lisa McLaughlin

The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender offers a comprehensive 
examination of media and gender studies, charting its histories, 
investigating ongoing controversies, and assessing future trends. The 59 
chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the 
world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative 
survey of current thinking in media and gender research.

The Companion includes the following features:

• With each chapter addressing a distinct, concrete set of issues, the 
volume includes research from around the world to engage readers in a 
broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional 
perspectives.
• Authors address a series of important questions that have consequences 
for current and future thinking in the field, including postfeminism, 
sexual violence, masculinity, media industries, queer identities, video 
games, digital policy, media activism, sexualization, docusoaps, teen 
drama, cosmetic surgery, media Islamophobia, sport, telenovelas, news 
audiences, pornography, and social and mobile media.
• A range of academic disciplines inform exploration of key issues 
around production and policymaking, representation, audience engagement, 
and the place of gender in media studies.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender is an essential guide to the 
central ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping media and gender 
research.

View Inside the Book:
www.routledge.com/u/routledgecompaniontomediaandgendervi/

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Or alternatively, please contact: (louise.armstrong /at/ tandf.co.uk)



Dr Cynthia Carter
Senior Lecturer
Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Cardiff University
Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff, Wales, UK CF10 3NB
tel: (0)2920 876172
fax: (0)2920 238832
email: (cartercl /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)
website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec
Co-editor, Feminist Media Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms


most recent book - Routledge Companion to Media and Gender
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415527699/

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