This book offers insights into the set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. The articles move beyond associating gender with man/woman and instead considers the relationship between the construction of gender norms, biological sex and the mediation of sex and sexuality. Essay topics range from the continuing sexism of TV advertising to ways in which the internet is facilitating the (re)invention of our sexual selves.
This volume examines how women are represented, how women have created and produced magazines and how women make meaning of themselves and their world using magazines as key sources of information. Including: Women in Print Magazines and New Media: A Bibliography