Gender and the media : women's places

Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender and the Media: Women's Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of what is there, as well as what is missing. Their focus is on women. Networks of the cyberbullying of women of color are rendered graphically and the agency claimed by women in Western Sahara refugee camps is shown in photos. How college women and men respond to the masculinity reflected in hip-hop lyrics and videos, and what it feels like to be a woman in a comic book store are conveyed in excerpts from interviews. Contributors detail how publications discuss rape in India and trafficking in Moldova and ponder the absence of the topic of anorexia in U.S. cinema. Social change is reflected in how trade publications discuss the increasing number of women in the funeral industry. The relation of the local to the global and female invisibility is considered in an analysis of Portuguese punk fanzines. An examination of advice books for American tween girls documents not only the subject matter, but also the racial, ethnic and religious homogeneity and heteronormativity assumed in the text and illustrations. Finally, a comparison of the critical response to identical music recorded by female and male artists provides the opportunity to see the role gender plays in criticism of aesthetic materials.

• Introduction. GENDER AND THE MEDIA: WOMEN'S PLACES
• Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal PART I: Agency Affirming Places Chapter 1. WAR, CULTURE AND AGENCY AMONG SAHRAWI WOMEN REFUGEES: A PHOTO-ESSAY
• Amira Karaoud Chapter 2. FROM "OLD BOY" TO "GENDER PROGRESSIVE": THE SHIFTING GENDER STORY OF FUNERAL WORK IN TRADE PUBLICATIONS
• Sarah B. Donley Chapter 3. PUNK FAIRYTALE: POPULAR MUSIC, MEDIA, AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF GENDER
• Paula Guerra, Luiza Bittencourt and Gabriela Gelain Chapter 4. "TRAPPIN' AIN'T SHIT TO ME": HOW UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS CONSTRUCT MEANING AROUND RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY WITHIN HIP HOP
• Andrea N. Hunt PART II: Overtly Hostile or Agency Denying Places Chapter 5. TRUTH, JUSTICE, BOOBS: GENDER IN COMIC BOOK CULTURE
• Trisha L. Crawshaw Chapter 6. WHAT A B!TCH: CYBER AGGRESSION TOWARDS WOMEN OF COLOR
• Diane Felmlee, Paulina Inara Rodis and Sara Chari Francisco Chapter 7. MAINSTREAMING GENDER, ENDANGERED, UNGENDERED? ANALYSIS OF MEDIA REPORTS OF THE 2012 CASE OF RAPE IN INDIA
• Soma Chaudhuri, Preethi Krishnan and Mangala Subramaniam Chapter 8. IMAGES OF TRAFFICKED WOMEN: A CASE STUDY OF MEDIA AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCOURSE IN MOLDOVA, 2003-2008
• Rodica Lisnic and Anna Zajicek PART III: Covertly Negating Places Chapter 9. MORTALITY SALIENCE, TERROR MANAGEMENT, AND HOLLYWOOD FILM: THEORIZING ON THE ABSENCE OF ANOREXIA AS A SUBJECT IN U.S. MAINSTREAM MOVIES
• Tina L. Margolis, Julie Lauren Rones, and Ariela Algaze Chapter 10. WHO IS THE AMERICAN GIRL? ANALYZING DIFFERENCE IN AMERICAN GIRL ADVICE BOOKS
• Victoria G. Velding and Alexis P. Hilling Chapter 11. GENDER AND CRITICAL EVALUATION IN POPULAR MUSIC
• Vaughn Schmutz, Sarah H. Pollock, and Jordan S. Bendickson