Beschreibung:
This book highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media regarding portrayals of women, across genres and cultures within the twenty-first century.
For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circlesMedia Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media regarding portrayals of women, across genres and cultures within the twenty-first century. Blending both original studies and descriptive overviews of current media platforms, top scholars evaluate the portrayals of women in contemporary venues, including advertisements, videogames, political stories, health communication, and reality television.
Preface
Gaye Tuchman
Part One
Introduction
Cory L. Armstrong
Chapter 1: Women’s (mis)representation in News Media
Tracy Everbach
Chapter 2: Gendered Sexual Scripts in Music Lyrics and Videos Popular among Adolescents
Stacey J.T. Hust, Kathleen Boyce Rodgers, and Weina Ran
Chapter 3: Women in health news and communication
Julie L. Andsager
Chapter 4: Newspaper Coverage of Women Running for the U.S. Senate in 2012: Evidence of an Increasingly Level Playing Field?
Dianne Bystrom and Valerie Hennings
Chapter 5: From annihilation to ambivalence: Women in sports coverage
Dunja Antunovic and Marie Hardin
Part Two
Chapter 6: Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
Stine Eckert and Linda Steiner
Chapter 7: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: How Gender is Represented on Reality Television
Adriane Grumbein and J. Robyn Goodman
Chapter 8: Adverting the Gaze: Advertisers’ Construction of Female Masculinity through the Athleticism of Olympians Abby Wambaugh, Lindsey Vonn, and Marlen Esparza
Kim Bissell and Sim Butler
Chapter 9: Gendered Performance in Virtual Environments
Donna Z. Davis
Part Three
Chapter 10: Bic for Her and Crisps for Him: Contemporary Gendered Targeting and Representation in Advertising around the World
Alexandra M. Vilela, Michelle R. Nelson, and Hye-Jin Paek
Chapter 11: Women Making News (or Not) in Uganda
Steve J. Collins and Timothy Brown
Chapter 12: Blame Narratives: News Discourses of Sex Trafficking
Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston
Chapter 13: Gender Differences in Covering Public Health Crises in China
Fangfang Gao
Part Four
Chapter 14: Media and Public Discourse: The Limits of Feminist Influence
Carolyn M. Byerly
Conclusion: The next frontier in gender representation
Cory L. Armstrong
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