Featuring Females: Feminist Analyses of Media

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ISBN: 9781591472780 | 1591472784
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/1/2005

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Alaska Pacific Univ., Anchorage. Analyzes the portrayals of women in various media outlets, including reality television shows, films, print and electronic news programming, magazines, video games, and commercial advertising. Addresses how aging, race/ethnicity, body image, and gender roles are treated in the media.

Preface

I. Beginning With Girls: Gender Roles, Body Image, and Sex

(56)

The Impact of Media Use on Girls' Beliefs About Gender Roles, Their Bodies, and Sexual Relationships: A Research Synthesis

(22)

L. Monique Ward

Kristen Harrison

``He Left Her for the Alien'': Girls, Television, and Sex

(16)

C. Lynn Sorsoli

Michelle V. Porche

Deborah L. Tolman

The Media's Role in Body Image and Eating Disorders

(16)

Stefanie C. Gilbert

Helene Keery

J. Kevin Thompson

II. Defining Reality

(56)

Clash of Cultures: Women and Girls on TV and in Real Life

(12)

Diana Zuckerman

Nicole Dubowitz

Outwit, Outlast, Out-Flirt? The Women of Reality TV

(14)

Laura S. Brown

Narratives of Gender in Computer Advertisements

(16)

Laura J. Burlingame-Lee

Silvia Sara Canetto

Hollywood's Portrayal of Psychologists and Psychiatrists: Gender and Professional Training Differences

101

(12)

Harriet T. Schultz

III. Aggression and Violence: Victims and Perpetrators

113

(54)

Violence, Sex, Race, and Age in Popular Video Games: A Content Analysis

115

(16)

Karen E. Dill

Douglas A. Gentile

William A. Richter

Jody C. Dill

Mama Bears, Bitches, and Monsters: Motherhood and Violence in Popular Film

131

(12)

Lynn Edith Paulson

Violence and Women: News Coverage of Victims and Perpetrators

143

(12)

Elizabeth K. Carll

Gender and the Portrayal of Direct and Indirect Aggression on Television

155

(12)

Norma D. Feshbach

IV. Gender Images With a Focus on Race and Age

167

(44)

African American Women in Search of Scripts

169

(16)

Thema Bryant-Davis

Reflection and Distortion: Women of Color in Magazine Advertisements

185

(14)

Janis Sanchez-Hucles

Patrick S. Hudgins

Kimberly Gamble

Aging to Perfection or Perfectly Aged? The Image of Women Growing Older on Television

199

(12)

Kim S. Kjaersgaard

Afterword

211

(4)

Index

215

(10)

About the Contributors

225

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