Featuring females : feminist analyses of media

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Cole, Ellen.

ISBN:

9781591472780

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004592.html

Publication Information:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2005.

Physical Description:

xii, 231 p. ; 27 cm.

Series:

Psychology of women book series

Contents:

The impact of media use on girls' beliefs about gender roles, their bodies, and sexual relationships / L. Monique Ward & Kristen Harrison -- "He left her for the alien" / C. Lynn Sorsoli, Michelle V. Porche, & Deborah L. Tolman -- The media's role in body image and eating disorders / Stefanie C. Gilbert, Helene Keery, & J. Kevin Thompson -- Clash of cultures / Diana Zuckerman & Nikki Dubowitz -- Outcast, outlast, out-flirt? The women of reality TV / Laura S. Brown -- Narratives of gender in computer advertising / Laura J. Burlingame-Lee & Silvia Sara Canetto -- Hollywood's portrayal of psychologists and psychiatrists / Harriet T. Schultz -- Violence, sex, race, and age in popular video games / Karen E. Dill ... [et al.] -- Mama bears, bitches, and monsters / Lynn Edith Paulson -- Violence and women / Elizabeth K. Carll -- Gender and the portrayal of direct and indirect aggression on television / Norma D. Feshbach -- African-American women in search of scripts / Thema Bryant-Davis -- Reflection and distortion / Janis Sanchez-Hucles, Patrick S. Hudgins, & Kimberly Gamble -- Aging to perfection or perfectly aged? the image of women growing older on television / Kim S. Kjaersgaard.

Subject Term:

Women in mass media.

Added Author:

Cole, Ellen.

Daniel, Jessica Henderson.

Added Corporate Author:

American Psychological Association.

Statement of Responsibility:

edited by Ellen Cole and Jessica Henderson Daniel.

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Summary

The media provide strong and persuasive messages about the intersection of culture and gender roles. Given the power of the media to influence and ""educate"" the public, understanding its images of girls and women is critical. Featuring Females analyzes the portrayals of women in a variety of outlets including reality television shows, films, print and electronic news programming, magazines, video games, and commercial advertising. A highly esteemed group of scholars and researchers provides informed original psychological study, and their thought-provoking findings address the ways in which aging, race/ethnicity, body image, gender roles, sexual orientation and relationships, and violence are treated in the media. Featuring Females is a diverse and provocative volume, exploring images and characterizations of women young and old, and inspiring discussion of the effects that these representations have on girls, women, and society at large.

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Choice Review

Feminist analyses of media abound, from Bonnie Dow's Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture and the Women's Movement (CH, Jan'97, 34-2581), which examines specific television sitcoms whose main characters are women, to the commanding Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media, ed. by Angharah Valdivia (CH, Mar'96, 33-3726), which provides a multidisciplinary approach to issues of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in the global media economy. Emerging from the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Media, Women, and Girls, the present volume--with its somewhat unhelpful subtitle--has several particular strengths. For one, the scope is wide-ranging: it examines US print, television, the Internet, and film. For another, it is heuristic: the book begins with three chapters on the impact of media on girls, how media shape their attitudes, behaviors, body image, and sexuality. Monique Ward and Kristen Harrison's comprehensive literature review (chapter 1) is a must for any researcher in the area of feminist media studies. The bibliographic references throughout add to the volume's usefulness as resource for further study in psychology, communication, and feminist studies. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division and above. M. R. Grant emerita, Wheaton College