Sexual rhetoric : media perspectives on sexuality, gender, and identity /
Sexual rhetoric : media perspectives on sexuality, gender, and identity /
edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and Susan C. Zavoina.
- xviii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Contributions to the study of mass media and communications, no. 57 0732-4456 ; .
- Contributions to the study of mass media and communications ; no. 57. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Media Rhetoric: A Way of Knowing -- Media Messages: Visual Literacy/Visual Rhetoric -- Historic Perspectives -- The Liberator's "Ladies' Department," 1832-37: Freedom or Fetters? -- To Strengthen the Wings of a Caged Bird: Constructing Woman in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and The Una -- Newspaper -- War in the Ranks: Newspaper Coverage of Sexual Harassment in the Military -- Necrophilia, Pedophilia, or Both?: The Sexualized Rhetoric of the JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case -- The Visual Image in Media -- Media Mirage: The Thin Ideal as Digital Manipulation -- The Historical Development of Women's Posing from the Post-Gold Rush Era to the Present Print Media -- Magazine -- That Time of the Month: Adolescence, Advertising, and Menstruation -- Face-ism Reconsidered: Facial Prominence and Body Emphasis of Males and Females in Magazine Advertising -- Designed for (Male) Pleasure: The Myth of Lesbian Chic in Mainstream Advertising -- "That Undefinable Whatever": Selling Virginity -- Gendered Bodies Still Thrive in (Post)modern Magazineland -- Television -- Super Bowl Speak: Subtexts of Sex and Sex Talk in America's Annual Sports Extravaganza -- Agitational Versatility: When Truth Met Jordan -- Deconstructing Ellen: Time, Sitcoms, and the Meaning of Gayness -- "We Got Next": The WNBA Advertising Campaign's Negotiations with "Femininity" -- Video -- Competing Rhetorical Strategies in the Gay and Lesbian Video Wars: Marching for Freedom and Gay Rights, Special Rights -- Contradictions in the Country: Rituals of Sexual Subordination and Strength in Music Video -- Inventing a Sexual Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis of Adult Video Box Covers -- Film -- Sexual Imagery and the Space of Love -- Cyberspace -- Third Wave Feminism and Cybersexuality: The Cultural Backlash of the New Girl Order -- Girls Can Be Doctors and Boys Can Be Nurses: Surfing for Solutions to Gender Stereotyping -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. Pt. III. 5. 6. Pt. IV. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Pt. V. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. VI. 16. 17. 18. Pt. VII. 19. Pt. VIII. 20. 21.
0313307881 9780313307881
99021278
Mass media and sex
Sex differences in mass media
Sex role in mass media
Mass media and culture.
P96.S45 / S49 1999
306.7
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Media Rhetoric: A Way of Knowing -- Media Messages: Visual Literacy/Visual Rhetoric -- Historic Perspectives -- The Liberator's "Ladies' Department," 1832-37: Freedom or Fetters? -- To Strengthen the Wings of a Caged Bird: Constructing Woman in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and The Una -- Newspaper -- War in the Ranks: Newspaper Coverage of Sexual Harassment in the Military -- Necrophilia, Pedophilia, or Both?: The Sexualized Rhetoric of the JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case -- The Visual Image in Media -- Media Mirage: The Thin Ideal as Digital Manipulation -- The Historical Development of Women's Posing from the Post-Gold Rush Era to the Present Print Media -- Magazine -- That Time of the Month: Adolescence, Advertising, and Menstruation -- Face-ism Reconsidered: Facial Prominence and Body Emphasis of Males and Females in Magazine Advertising -- Designed for (Male) Pleasure: The Myth of Lesbian Chic in Mainstream Advertising -- "That Undefinable Whatever": Selling Virginity -- Gendered Bodies Still Thrive in (Post)modern Magazineland -- Television -- Super Bowl Speak: Subtexts of Sex and Sex Talk in America's Annual Sports Extravaganza -- Agitational Versatility: When Truth Met Jordan -- Deconstructing Ellen: Time, Sitcoms, and the Meaning of Gayness -- "We Got Next": The WNBA Advertising Campaign's Negotiations with "Femininity" -- Video -- Competing Rhetorical Strategies in the Gay and Lesbian Video Wars: Marching for Freedom and Gay Rights, Special Rights -- Contradictions in the Country: Rituals of Sexual Subordination and Strength in Music Video -- Inventing a Sexual Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis of Adult Video Box Covers -- Film -- Sexual Imagery and the Space of Love -- Cyberspace -- Third Wave Feminism and Cybersexuality: The Cultural Backlash of the New Girl Order -- Girls Can Be Doctors and Boys Can Be Nurses: Surfing for Solutions to Gender Stereotyping -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. Pt. III. 5. 6. Pt. IV. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Pt. V. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. VI. 16. 17. 18. Pt. VII. 19. Pt. VIII. 20. 21.
0313307881 9780313307881
99021278
Mass media and sex
Sex differences in mass media
Sex role in mass media
Mass media and culture.
P96.S45 / S49 1999
306.7