Gender and Popular Culture (eBook)

Anneke Meyer, Katie Milestone (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013 | 1. Auflage
200 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-0-7456-5865-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of popular cultural forms - including popular music, newspapers and television - to illustrate how femininity and masculinity are produced, represented and consumed. The authors blend primary and secondary research to offer the reader a balanced yet novel overview of the area. Students are introduced to key theories and concepts in the fields of gender studies and popular culture, which are made accessible and interesting through their application to topical examples such as DJs, binge drinking and computer games. The book is structured into three clear, user-friendly sections:1. Production, gender and popular culture: An investigation of who produces popular culture, why gendered patterns occur, and how they impact on content.2. Representation, gender and popular culture: An examination of how men and women are represented in contemporary popular culture, and how notions of (in)appropriate femininity and masculinity are constructed.3. Consumption, gender and popular culture: An exploration of who consumes what in popular culture, how gendered consumption relates to space, and what the effects of consuming representations of gender are. Gender and Popular Culture will be essential reading for students and scholars of media and cultural studies at all levels.

Autor

Katie Milestone is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Anneke Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Inhalt

Detailed Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Gender and Cultural Work: Post-War to Late 1970s
3. Gender and Cultural Work: Punk and Beyond
4. Representing Women
5. Representing Men
6. Consuming Popular Culture: The Role of Gender
7. Gender, Popular Culture and Space/Place
8. Conclusion: Prisoners of Gender?
Bibliography

Rezensionen

"Presents readers with a rich analysis of the ways in whichgender norms, identities and relations are produced in popularculture ... Well-written, thoroughly well-structured andaccessible."
TimesHigher Education textbook guide

"Gender and Popular Culture expertly ties together the lastfew decades of research on its title themes, then brings these upto date in an impressive, useful manner. Theoretically rich, it isparticularly successful in offering original, smart analyses ofrecent popular cultural phenomena (from Mad Men through men'smagazines). This engaging book should find a wide audience amongstudents and teachers of gender studies, popular culture, andmedia."
Will Straw, McGill University

"This excellent, accessibly written book details how gender isconstructed in popular culture through an array of insights intoits relationship to production, consumption and representation. Itlooks at how gender identities are performatively constitutedthrough discourse, power and continuing inequality. This book willprove indispensable to those interested in the cultural politics ofgender."
Shirley Tate, Leeds University

"Fresh, accessible, and thorough, Gender and PopularCulture is an excellent introduction and a valuable resourcefor anyone interested in gender, media, and culture. Milestone andMeyer offer clear and concise surveys of both foundational andcurrent research as well as engaging case studies that model forreaders sophisticated analyses of gender in contemporary popularculture."
Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Texas at Austin

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Kulturwissenschaften • popular culture • Volkskultur
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-5865-2 / 0745658652
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5865-0 / 9780745658650