Mediated women : representations in popular culture / edited by Marian Meyers.
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Cresskill, N.J. :
Hampton Press,
[1999]
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| Series: | Hampton Press communication series. Political communication.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction. Fracturing women / Marian Meyers. II. Reinforcing stereotypes. Messages to women on love and marriage from women's magazines / Susan H. Alexander
- Reader's digest on women : antifeminist articulations of "the second sex" / Shawmy Anderson
- The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi
- Mammy goes to Las Vegas : Showgirls and the constancy of African-American female stereotypes / Carmen R. Gillespie
- Tales of difference : representations of American Indian women in popular film and television / S. Elizabeth Bird
- Who is the Puerto Rican woman and how is she? : shall Hollywood respond? / Jocelyn A. Gâeliga Vargas.
- From rags to riches : the story of class advancement in women's figure skating coverage / Bettina Fabos. III. Limit/ed/ing challenges. "More power!" : negotiating masculinity and femininity in Home improvement / Charlene Dellinger-Pate and Roger C. Aden
- "We are your neighbors" : Serving in silence and the simulated lesbian / Amy Villarejo
- Only a joke? : the standup comedy of women of color / Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte
- Madonna : transgression and reinscription / Carolyn Lea
- New York times coverage of Anita Hill as a female cipher / Linda Steiner.
- IV. Complexities and contradictions. The portrayal of women in television advertising / Carolyn Lin
- Gender, Melrose Place, and the Aaron Spelling legacy / Elayne Rapping
- Film noir, feminism, and the femme fatale : the hyper-sexed reality of Basic instinct / Tom Reichert and Charlene Melcher
- "Who talks like that?" : foregrounding stereotypes on The nanny / Barbara Wilinsky. IV. Representing progress. And she lived happily ever after-- : the Disney myth in the video age / Jill Birnie Henke and Diane Zimmerman Umble
- Las familias y las latinas : mediated representations of gender roles / Lisa A. Flores and Michelle A. Holling.
- Immigrant inscriptions : redefining race and gender in Mississippi Masala / Anjali Ram
- Gettin' real love : Waiting to exhale and film representations of womanist identity / Meta G. Carstarphen
- News, feminism and the dialectics of gender relations / Carolyn M. Byerly.