Chapter 1 Project gender: identity/ies in flux Chapter 2 The body in question: less than the sum of our parts Chapter 3 Sexymedia: the pornographication of popular culture or just a bit of slap and tickle? Chapter 4 Women in/and news: the invisible and the profane Chapter 5 Gender@internet Chapter 6 Endpoint
Karen Ross is professor of media and public communication at the University of Liverpool.
Ross offers a broad and overarching look at gender and the media
from politics to pornography.
*Booklist*
The extensive bibliography is formidable and will be of great use
to students and scholars. . . . Recommended.
*CHOICE*
An accessible and lively overview of current thinking in this broad
field of research from a writer who knows her own mind. The book
shows a passionate commitment to feminist activism while also
tracing the contradictory messages of twenty-first century media
cultures in the English speaking world.
*Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England, Bristol; author
of Television and Sexuality*
With this book Karen Ross has proven once again that she is one of
our most engaged and articulate authors on gender and media. She
argues convincingly that classic feminist issues of sexuality and
representation need to be reinvented and addressed to counter
current cultural cliches that mistakenly suggest a crisis of
masculinity and the liberation of femininity. A revealing read for
students, and an inspiring agenda for fellow scholars.
*Liesbet Van Zoonen, Loughborough University, UK; Erasmus
University, NL*
Karen Ross has brought us a smart, breezy, sophisticated reading of
how the media frame us as gendered subjects and how we use the
media. This is the work of someone who knows her way around the
territory of previous research and past and present media
practices, including the Internet. Using feminist theory and a
critical edge, Ross reveals that the more things change, the more
things still remain the same. Fortunately, she also leaves us with
hope about the potential for using media for advocacy and social
change.
*Lana F. Rakow, University of North Dakota*
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