Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, Gendered Transformations offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics, embodied performance, and social constructions of reality, these essays explore a wide variety of concerns from a similarly wide variety of perspectives, from essentialist to anti-essentialist. A thought-provoking contribution to a number of disparate fields, Gendered Transformations offers a rare interdisciplinary approach to gender that reflects the most recent developments in media theory and methodology.
Table of Contents
Preface
Liesbet van Zoonen
Section I: Gendered Politics
Chapter 1: Silent Witness: News Sources, the Local Press and the Disappeared Woman
Claudia Alvares
Chapter 2: Tracing Gendered (In)visibilities in the Portuguese Quality Press
Claudia Alvares
Chapter 3: Women’s Time Has Come: An Archaeology of French Female Presidential Candidates—From Arlette Laguiller (1974) to Ségolène Royal (2007)
Marlène Coulomb-Gully
Chapter 4: Gender Analysis of Mediated Politics in Germany
Margreth Luenenborg, Jutta Roeser, Tanja Maier and Kathrin Mueller
Section II: Embodied Performativities
Chapter 5: Hollywood, Resistance and Transgressive Queerness: Re-reading Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), The Children’s Hour (1961), and Advise & Consent (1962)
Frederik Dhaenens, Daniel Biltereyst and Sofie Van Bauwel
Chapter 6: Political Blogging: At a Crossroads of Gender and Culture Online?
Olena Goroshko and Olena Zhigalina
Chapter 7: XXY: Representing Intersex
Begonya Enguix Grau
Chapter 8: Disciplining Fantasy Bodies in Second Life
Georgia Gaden and Delia Dumitrica
Section III: Gendered Socializations
Chapter 9: Reality TV’s Contribution To the Gender Differentiation of Moral-Emotional Repertories
Tonny Krijnen
Chapter 10: ’Casualizing’ Sexuality in Teen Series. A Study of Gendered Sexual Discourses In the Popular American Teen Series One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl
Elke Van Damme
Chapter 11: Media Constructions of Gender in ICT Work
Martha Blomqvist and Kristina Eriksson
Chapter 12: Looking For Gender Equality in Journalism
Sinikka Torkkola and Iiris Ruoho
Conclusion
Claudia Alvares, Sofie Van Bauwel and Tonny Krijnen
Index
Notes on Contributors
Liesbet van Zoonen
Section I: Gendered Politics
Chapter 1: Silent Witness: News Sources, the Local Press and the Disappeared Woman
Claudia Alvares
Chapter 2: Tracing Gendered (In)visibilities in the Portuguese Quality Press
Claudia Alvares
Chapter 3: Women’s Time Has Come: An Archaeology of French Female Presidential Candidates—From Arlette Laguiller (1974) to Ségolène Royal (2007)
Marlène Coulomb-Gully
Chapter 4: Gender Analysis of Mediated Politics in Germany
Margreth Luenenborg, Jutta Roeser, Tanja Maier and Kathrin Mueller
Section II: Embodied Performativities
Chapter 5: Hollywood, Resistance and Transgressive Queerness: Re-reading Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), The Children’s Hour (1961), and Advise & Consent (1962)
Frederik Dhaenens, Daniel Biltereyst and Sofie Van Bauwel
Chapter 6: Political Blogging: At a Crossroads of Gender and Culture Online?
Olena Goroshko and Olena Zhigalina
Chapter 7: XXY: Representing Intersex
Begonya Enguix Grau
Chapter 8: Disciplining Fantasy Bodies in Second Life
Georgia Gaden and Delia Dumitrica
Section III: Gendered Socializations
Chapter 9: Reality TV’s Contribution To the Gender Differentiation of Moral-Emotional Repertories
Tonny Krijnen
Chapter 10: ’Casualizing’ Sexuality in Teen Series. A Study of Gendered Sexual Discourses In the Popular American Teen Series One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl
Elke Van Damme
Chapter 11: Media Constructions of Gender in ICT Work
Martha Blomqvist and Kristina Eriksson
Chapter 12: Looking For Gender Equality in Journalism
Sinikka Torkkola and Iiris Ruoho
Conclusion
Claudia Alvares, Sofie Van Bauwel and Tonny Krijnen
Index
Notes on Contributors