Gender and popular culture

Milestone, Katie. (Author). Meyer, Anneke, 1976- (Added Author).

Summary: 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. Three parts discuss : An investigation of who produces popular culture, why gendered patterns occur, and how they impact on content ; An examination of how men and women are represented in contemporary popular culture, and how notions of (in)appropriate femininity and masculinity are constructed ; 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780745643946 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780745643939 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0745643930 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0745643949 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Gender and cultural work : post-war to the late 1970s -- Gender and cultural work : punk and beyond -- Representing women -- Representing men -- Consuming popular culture : the role of gender -- Gender, popular culture and space/place -- Conclusion : prisoners of gender?