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Title: Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers
Condition: New
EAN: 9780739177082
ISBN: 9780739177082
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 27/09/2012
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 160mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 531g
Contributor: Victoria L. Godwin (Contributions by), Alena Amato Ruggerio (Edited by), Lauren J. DeCarvalho (Contributions by), Sheryl L. Cunningham (Contributions by), Hao-Chieh Chang (Contributions by), Dacia Charlesworth (Contributions by), Deneen Gilmour (Contributions by), Heidi E. Hamilton (Contributions by), Ann E. Burnette (Contributions by), Mary Frances Casper (Contributions by), Paula Hopeck (Contributions by), Hinda Mandell (Contributions by), Alyssa Ann Samek (Contributions by), Diana L. Tucker (Contributions by), Marcia M. Smith (Contributions by), Lynne M. Webb (Contributions by), Christy Ellen Mesaros-Winckles (Contributions by), Rebecca K. Ivic (Contributions by), Erika M. Thomas (Contributions by), Rita L. Rahoi-Gilchrest (Contributions by), Deborah A. Macey (Contributions by), Marceline Thompson Hayes (Contributions by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739177087
Description: Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women’s identities. This collection includes studies of Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, “momtini” blogs, and Mad Men fan websites. Readers will learn to apply the insights from each chapter to their own sets of myths, stereotypes, and assumptions about gendered roles, and to recognize the possibilities for both liberation and domination when women’s practices of marrying, mating, and mothering are represented and misrepresented in the media. This collection is an essential contribution to media studies and criticism of gender stereotypes in contemporary culture.Read the author's recent interview with Literary Ashland. You can also visit the author's website here.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Author: Paula Hopeck
Release Year: 2012

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