The Gender and Media Reader

Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney

Published by Routledge



available August 10, 2011



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The Gender and Media Reader is an essential text for those interested 

in gender and media studies, its main topics, debates, and 

theoretical approaches. The primary objective of this collection is 

to expand readers' knowledge of how gender operates within media 

culture through engagement with foundational writings as well as more 

contemporary research in this field. Taking a multiperspectival 

approach that considers gender broadly and examines media texts 

alongside their production and consumption, The Gender and Media 

Reader enables readers' critical thinking about how gender is 

constructed, contested, and subverted in different sites within media 

culture. Along with the main introduction, individual section 

introductions facilitate readers' understanding of the development of 

gender and media studies by contextualizing the various topics, 

debates, and theoretical approaches that have shaped it, as well as 

by highlighting current trends.



Mary Celeste Kearney is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film 

and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. 

She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and editor of 

Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter 

Lang, 2011). She is currently completing work on Power Chords and 

Groupie Chicks: Gender in Rock Culture, forthcoming from Oxford 

University Press.



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