The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media Book

Notes on Contributors.

Editor’s Introduction.

Part 1: Mediated Women.

1. The geography of women and media scholarship (Carolyn Byerly).

2. Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings (Claudia Bucciferro).

3. The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria (Elza Ibrosheva and Maria Stover).

4. Gossip Blogs and “Baby Bumps:” The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media (Erin Meyers).

5. Fanfiction and webnovelas: the digital reading and writing of Brazilian adolescent girls (Ilana Eleá).

6. Virtually blonde: Blonde jokes in the global age and post-feminist discourse (Limor Shifman and Dafna Lemish).

Part 2: Rugged masculinity and other fables.

7. Men, Masculinitie and the Cave Man (Jeffery P. Dennis).

8. Rhetorical Masculinity: authoritative utterance and the male protagonist (Stuart Price).

9. Conan the Blueprint: The construction of masculine prototypes in genre films (Guido Ipsen).

10. Save The Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television After 9/11 (Sarah Godfrey and Hannah Hamad).

11. Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos (Lynne Hibberd).

12. Studio5ive.Com: Selling Cosmetics To Men And Reconstructing Masculine Identity (Claire Harrison).

Part 3: Queering the pitch.

13. No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape (Katherine Sender).

14. The L Word: Producing Identities Through Irony (Julie Scanlon).

15. Andro-phobia?: When Gender Queer Is too Queer For L-Word Audiences (Rebecca Kern).

16. Questioning queer audiences: Exploring diversity in lesbian and gay men’s media uses and readings (Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons).

17. ‘In Touch’ With the Female Body: Cinema, Sport and Lesbian Representability (Katharina Lindner).

18. Why Doesn’t Your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters and Contemporary Queer Theory (Martin Fradley).

19. Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Coming Out in US Teen Television Drama Series (Susan Berridge).

20. Transmen On The Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses (Matthew Heinz).

21. Transgendered Saints and Harlots: reproduction of popular Brazilian transgender stereotypes through performance on stage, screen and in everyday life (Johannes Sjöberg).

Part 4: Women, men and gender.

22. Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond (Cynthia Carter).

23. Colin won’t drink out of a pink cup (Barbara Mitra and Jenny Lewin-Jones).

24. Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read The ‘Knowing Wink’ In Advertising (Sue Abel).

25. Communication As Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze (Corinna Chong, Heather Molyneaux and Hélène Fournier).

26. Dutch-Moroccan girls performing their selves in Instant Messaging spaces (Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi).

Part 5: All about sex

27. Sex and the Media (Feona Attwood).

28. Deliciously Consumable: the Uses and Abuses of Irony in ‘Sex-Trafficking’ Campaign Films (Jane Arthurs).

29. The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover and Mediated Sex (Laura Harvey and Rosalind Gill).

30. Enacting bodies: online dating and new media practices (Begonya Enguix and Elisenda Ardévol).

31. Gender and sexuality in the Internet era (Panayiota Tsatsou).

32. Gay for Pay: The Internet and The Economics of Homosexual Desire (John Mercer).

Acknowledgments.

Index.