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Delights, Desires, and Dilemmas: Essays on Women and the Media » Read Now
by Ann C. Hall. 172 pgs.

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The question of the representation of women in the media has been an important one for feminists over the past three decades. This diverse collection of essays represents three major trends in feminist media studies: the liberal feminist perspective, which focuses on the media's tendency to...
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The question of the representation of women in the media has been an important one for feminists over the past three decades. This diverse collection of essays represents three major trends in feminist media studies: the liberal feminist perspective, which focuses on the media's tendency to misrepresent and oppress women; the postmodern perspective, which illustrates the ways in which women can participate in, enjoy, and sometimes subvert the dominant media; and the more recent attempts to identify and challenge the subtle backlash that threatens to obliterate feminist gains. The contributors cover a wide range of subjects, from advertisements for women's stockings to the life and death of Princess Diana.
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Enduring Values: Women in Popular Culture » Read Now
by June Sochen. 162 pgs.

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Enduring Values offers a critical examination of 20th century treatments of women in several mass media areas including music, film, and television. This volume is unique in its wide coverage of various media forms and of the corresponding images of women within the respective areas. from the Preface
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Turning It on: A Reader in Women and Media » Read Now
by Helen Baehr, Ann Gray. 226 pgs.

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...1975 . The early work on media images of women has been severely critiqued...examines the relationship between media images and of women and womens role in...
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Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media » Read Now
by Myra Macdonald. 250 pgs.

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...constructing images of, both men and women also predate...arrival of the media, and set...daughters, women now have...wider range of representations...before. Mens images...
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The Portrayal of Women's Images in Magazine Advertisements: Goffman's Gender Analysis Revisited, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Mee-Eun Kang. 18 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...movement on the media. Advertising...been accused of stereotyping images of women, and they...advertising images is a slow one. Print media advertisements...demeaning roles...
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Exposure to Media Images of Female Attractiveness and Concern With Body Weight Among Young Women, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Heidi D. Posavac, Steven S. Posavac, Emil J. Posavac. 12 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...majority of young women may find media images of female attractiveness...find effects of exposure to media images on weight...that expose women to either...a function of...
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Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney & Lacey » Read Now
by Julie D'Acci. 346 pgs.

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This book deals with the cultural constructions of gender, the many troubles that underlie them, and U.S. television's place in the overall process. It investigates the 'struggle over meanings'--specifically the meanings of woman, women, and femininity; the role of television networks, production...
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This book deals with the cultural constructions of gender, the many troubles that underlie them, and U.S. television's place in the overall process. It investigates the 'struggle over meanings'--specifically the meanings of woman, women, and femininity; the role of television networks, production companies, production teams, and publicity firms in generating and circulating these meanings; the ways in which TV viewers, the press, and numerous interest groups produce meanings and countermeanings of their own; and how all of these meanings clash and compete for social and semiotic space and power.
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Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970 » Read Now
by Bonnie J. Dow. 240 pgs.

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...off itself and other media, and in this way its images both echo and participate in the shaping of cultural trends...visions of liberated women is a journey...
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Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History » Read Now
by Martha Banta. 844 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...yet another series of female images. The Epilogue, titled "Looking...provided by this book about women constantly being looked at...themselves to remedy the impact of all...
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Work, Family, and Social Class in Television Images of Women: Prime-Time Television and the Construction of Postfeminism, in Women and Language » Read Now
by Andrea Press, Terry Strathman. 9 pgs.

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...with other women against their...vulnerability of modern patriarchal...threatening for media to continue...postfeminist images weve described...influence of...
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Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience » Read Now
by Andrea L. Press. 246 pgs.

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...and Mass Media Reception...Television Images of Women: Prefeminism...presents to women of themselves -- their images in the mass media, specifically...portion of these...
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Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity » Read Now
by Sharon R. Mazzarella, Norma Odom Pecora. 228 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...to a different form of print media targeted to adolescent girls...the once-a-year prom issues of several teen magazines -- YM...been notorious for ignoring women at best...
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Disfigured Images: The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women » Read Now
by Patricia Morton. 174 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly," writes Morton whose book exposes a multitude of dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarly studies of the history of the Afro-American woman. Disfigured Images explores the "literature of fact" concerning black women...
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"Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly," writes Morton whose book exposes a multitude of dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarly studies of the history of the Afro-American woman. Disfigured Images explores the "literature of fact" concerning black women during a century of American historiography extending from the late 19th century to the present and finds a body of work that "presented little fact and much fiction." The volume is a long-needed refutation of a caricatured, mythical version of Black women's history.
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Women, Media, and Politics » Read Now
by Pippa Norris, Joan Shorenstein. 269 pgs.

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This study of the relationship between women, media and politics looks at a variety of topics including women as journalists, media framing of the generation gap, and talk radio and gender politics.
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Women Politicians and the Media » Read Now
by Maria Braden. 238 pgs.

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...anything, media speculation...had thought of it, I would...coverage as women. Not only...locked in by images, they are...that the media are generally...credibility of...
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It's Show Time! Media, Politics, and Popular Culture ("Cultural Images, Gender, and the Military" begins on p. 134) » Read Now
by David A. Schultz. 277 pgs.

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David A. Schultz is Professor of Public Administration and Management at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota.