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Representation and Meaning
Marian Meyers
ISBN: 9781572738287
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Hampton Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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Marian Meyers's latest anthology takes a new look at a wide range of contemporary images of women within the media to examine the meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture. This book explores what the representation of women says about their positions in society…
Following upon the success of her book, "Mediated Women: Representations in Popular Culture", the author's latest anthology takes a new look at a wide range of contemporary images of women within the media to examine the meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture. This book explores what representation of women says about their positions in society, the factors that shape representation, and the roles that gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation play within the mediated portrayal of women.Drawing primarily on qualitative textual analysis of film, reality TV, advertising, the news, children's programming, soap operas, TV drama, and more, the book situates the representation of women in popular culture along a continuum ranging from stereotypical portrayals that underscore women's bodies as pornographic spectacle to more positive and hopeful depictions. And it argues that the contemporary portrayals of women within popular culture are shaped by two major trends: the mainstreaming of pornography and its resultant hypersexualization of women and girls, and the commodification of those images for a global market.
| ISBN | 1572738286 | | Pages | 316 | | ISBN13 | 9781572738287
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Hampton Press | | Weight (grammes) | 481 | | Imprint | Hampton Press | | Published in | Cresskill | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 226 | | Publication date | 01 May 2008 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | HQ1233 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY | 302.23082 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| Pt. I | | Introduction | | | | 1 | | Women in Popular Culture: All Sexed Up and Global to Go by Marian Meyers | | 3 | | Pt. II | | The Pornogrification of Women | | | | 2 | | A (Bad) Habit of Thinking Challenging and Changing the Pornographic Worldview by Jane Caputi | | 29 | | 3 | | Lolita Lives!: An Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Adolescent Girls in Fashion Advertising by Debra Merskin | | 57 | | Pt. III | | Bodies and Difference | | | | 4 | | NippleMania: Black Feminism, Corporeal Fragmentation, and the Politics of Public Consumption by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders and Brittany Cooper | | 73 | | 5 | | "Made to be the Maid?": An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television by Rosa E. Soto | | 85 | | 6 | | The Multiply Transgressive Body of Anna Nicole Smith by Karen C. Pitcher | | 101 | | Pt. IV | | Hybridity and the Global Market | | | | 7 | | Climbing the Great Wall of Feminism: Disney's Mulan by Jill Birnie Henke | | 123 | | 8 | | Bollywood and Globalization: Reassembling Gender and Nation in Kal Ho Na Ho by Anjali Ram | | 137 | | 9 | | "I am Cenicienta (Cinderella) and I'm Choosing My Prince": Reality TV Adapts an Old Fairy Tale for the New Millennium by Susana Kaiser | | 151 | | Pt. V | | Limited Resistance | | | | 10 | | Structuring the Status Quo: The L Word and Queer Female Acceptability by Rebecca Kern | | 171 | | 11 | | The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Media by S. Elizabeth Bird | | 185 | | Pt. VI | | Finding Progress | | | | 12 | | Power(Puff) Feminism: The Powerpuff Girls As a Site of Strength and Collective Action in the Third Wave by Rebecca C. Hains | | 211 | | 13 | | Feminism And Daytime Soap Operas by Elayne Rapping | | 237 | | 14 | | The Dialectical Relationship of Women and Media by Carolyn M. Byerly | | 257 | | | More... | | |
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