Includes bibliographical references and index Carolyn Byerly: Introduction ; Mediated women. The geography of women and media scholarship Claudia Bucciferro: Chilean women in changing times: media images and social understandings Elza Ibrosheva and Maria Stover: The girls of Parliament: a historical analysis of the press coverage of female politicians in Bulgaria Erin Meyers: Gossip blogs and "baby bumps": the new visual spectacle of female celebrity in gossip media Ilana Eleá: Fanfiction and webnovelas: the digital reading and writing of Brazilian adolescent girls Limor Shifman and Dafna Lemish: Virtually blonde: blonde jokes in the global age and post-feminist discourse Jeffery P. Dennis: Rugged masculinity and other fables. Men, masculinitie and the cave man Stuart Price: Rhetorical masculinity: authoritative utterance and the male protagonist Guido Ipsen: Conan the blueprint: the construction of masculine prototypes in genre films Sarah Godfrey and Hannah Hamad: Save the cheerleader, save the males: resurgent protective paternalism in popular film and television after 9/11 Lynne Hibberd: Fucking Vito: masculinity and sexuality in The Sopranos Claire Harrison: Studio5ive.com: selling cosmetics to men and reconstructing masculine identity Katherine Sender: Queering the pitch. No hard feelings: reflexivity and queer affect in the new media landscape Julie Scanlon: The L word: producing identities through irony Rebecca Kern: Andro-phobia?: when gender queer is too queer for L-word audiences Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons: Questioning queer audiences: exploring diversity in lesbian and gay men's media uses and readings Katharina Lindner: "In touch" with the female body: cinema, sport and lesbian representability Martin Fradley: Why doesn't your compass work?: Pirates of the caribbean, fantasy blockbusters and contemporary queer theory Susan Berridge: Raised voices: homophobic abuse as a catalyst for coming out in US teen television drama series Matthew Heinz: Transmen on the web: inscribing multiple discourses Johannes Sjöberg: Transgendered saints and harlots: reproduction of popular Brazilian transgender stereotypes through performance on stage, screen and in everyday life Cynthia Carter: Women, men and gender. Sex/gender and the media: from sex roles to social construction and beyond Barbara Mitra and Jenny Lewin-Jones: Colin won't drink out of a pink cup Sue Abel: Postfeminism meets hegemonic masculinities: young people read the "knowing wink" in advertising Corinna Chong, Heather Molyneaux and Hélène Fournier: Communication as commodification: video technology and the gendered gaze Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi: Dutch-Moroccan girls performing their selves in instant messaging spaces Feona Attwood: All about sex. Sex and the media Jane Arthurs: Deliciously consumable: the uses and abuses of irony in "sex-trafficking" campaign films Laura Harvey and Rosalind Gill: The sex inspectors: self-help, makeover and mediated sex Begonya Enguix and Elisenda Ardévol: Enacting bodies: online dating and new media practices Panayiota Tsatsou: Gender and sexuality in the Internet era John Mercer.: Gay for pay: the Internet and the economics of homosexual desire |
