Share This
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.
Tag This Book
This Book Has Been Tagged
Our Recommendation
Notify Me When The Price...
Log In to track this book on eReaderIQ.
Track These Authors
Log In to track Alyssa Ann Samek on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Ann E. Burnette on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Christy Ellen Mesaros-Winckles on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Dacia Charlesworth on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Deborah A. Macey on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Deneen Gilmour on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Diana L. Tucker on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Erika M. Thomas on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Hao-Chieh Chang on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Heidi E. Hamilton on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Hinda Mandell on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Lauren J. DeCarvalho on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Lynne M. Webb on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Marceline Thompson Hayes on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Marcia M. Smith on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Mary Frances Casper on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Paula Hopeck on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Rebecca K. Ivic on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Rita L. Rahoi-Gilchrest on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Sheryl L. Cunningham on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Victoria L. Godwin on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Alena Amato Ruggerio on eReaderIQ.