Mediated Women : Representations in Popular Culture

Name: Mediated Women : Representations in Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9781572732407

ISBN-10: 1572732407

ISBN-13: 9781572732407

Edition: 1st 1999

Authors: Marian Meyers, David L. Paletz

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Mediated Women investigates the meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture through primarily qualitative textual analyses of films, television programmes, the news, magazines, music videos, and advertising.

Book details

List price: $34.50
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Hampton Press, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Introduction
Fracturing Women	p. 3
Reinforcing Stereotypes
Messages to Women on Love and Marriage From Women's Magazines	p. 25
Reader's Digest on Women: Antifeminist Articulations of "The Second Sex"	p. 39
The Pornography of Everyday Life	p. 57
Mammy Goes to Las Vegas: Showgirls and the Constancy of African-American Female Stereotypes	p. 81
Tales of Difference: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Film and Television	p. 91
Who is the Puerto Rican Woman and How is She?: Shall Hollywood Respond?	p. 111
From Rags to Riches: The Story of Class Advancement in Women's Figure Skating Coverage	p. 133
Limit/ed/ing Challenges
"More Power!": Negotiating Masculinity and Femininity in Home Improvement	p. 153
"We Are Your Neighbors": Serving in Silence and the Simulated Lesbian	p. 165
Only a Joke?: The Standup Comedy of Women of Color	p. 181
Madonna: Transgression and Reinscription	p. 205
New York Times Coverage of Anita Hill as a Female Cipher	p. 225
Complexities and Contradictions
The Portrayal of Women in Television Advertising	p. 253
Gender, Melrose Place, and the Aaron Spelling Legacy	p. 271
Film Noir, Feminism, and the Femme Fatale: The Hyper-Sexed Reality of Basic Instinct	p. 287
"Who Talks Like That?" Foregrounding Stereotypes on The Nanny	p. 305
Representing Progress
And She Lived Happily Ever After ... The Disney Myth in the Video Age	p. 321
Las Familias y Las Latinas: Mediated Representations of Gender Roles	p. 339
Immigrant Inscriptions: Redefining Race and Gender in Mississippi Masala	p. 355
Gettin' Real Love: Waiting to Exhale and Film Representations of Womanist Identity	p. 369
News, Feminism and the Dialectics of Gender Relations	p. 383
Author Index	p. 405
Subject Index	p. 413
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