'This book is an exuberant account of the changing landscape of popular media and Culture. David Gauntlett shows how gender politics are reinvented for popular consumption, in ways which illstrate the media alert to its own critics but also influenced by new ways of thinking and affected by the introduction of new constraints.'
Media,Gender and Identity includes:
- A comparison of gender representations in the past and today, with many contemporary examples
- An introduction to theorists such as Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler
- A discussion of queer theory and the idea of gender as performance
- A study of 'girl power' role models such as Destiny's Child and Britney Spears
- A website with extra articles, interview and selected links at
www.theoryhead.com/gender
1. Introduction
2. Some background debates
3. Representations of gender in the past
4. Representations of gender today
5. Giddens, modernity and self-identity
6. Michel Foucault: discourses and lifestyles
7. Queer theory and fluid identities
8. Men's magazines and modern male identities
9. Women's magazines and female identities today
10. Directions for living: role models, pop music and self-help discourses
11. Conclusions