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Sexual rhetoric : media perspectives on sexuality, gender, and identity / edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and Susan C. Zavoina.

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

Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Media Rhetoric: A Way of Knowing -- Media Messages: Visual Literacy/Visual Rhetoric -- Pt. I. Historic Perspectives -- 1. The Liberator's "Ladies' Department," 1832-37: Freedom or Fetters? -- 2. To Strengthen the Wings of a Caged Bird: Constructing Woman in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and The Una -- Pt. II. Newspaper -- 3. War in the Ranks: Newspaper Coverage of Sexual Harassment in the Military -- 4. Necrophilia, Pedophilia, or Both?: The Sexualized Rhetoric of the JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case -- Pt. III. The Visual Image in Media -- 5. Media Mirage: The Thin Ideal as Digital Manipulation -- 6. The Historical Development of Women's Posing from the Post-Gold Rush Era to the Present Print Media -- Pt. IV. Magazine -- 7. That Time of the Month: Adolescence, Advertising, and Menstruation -- 8. Face-ism Reconsidered: Facial Prominence and Body Emphasis of Males and Females in Magazine Advertising -- 9. Designed for (Male) Pleasure: The Myth of Lesbian Chic in Mainstream Advertising -- 10. "That Undefinable Whatever": Selling Virginity -- 11. Gendered Bodies Still Thrive in (Post)modern Magazineland -- Pt. V. Television -- 12. Super Bowl Speak: Subtexts of Sex and Sex Talk in America's Annual Sports Extravaganza -- 13. Agitational Versatility: When Truth Met Jordan -- 14. Deconstructing Ellen: Time, Sitcoms, and the Meaning of Gayness -- 15. "We Got Next": The WNBA Advertising Campaign's Negotiations with "Femininity" -- Pt. VI. Video -- 16. Competing Rhetorical Strategies in the Gay and Lesbian Video Wars: Marching for Freedom and Gay Rights, Special Rights -- 17. Contradictions in the Country: Rituals of Sexual Subordination and Strength in Music Video -- 18. Inventing a Sexual Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis of Adult Video Box Covers -- Pt. VII. Film -- 19. Sexual Imagery and the Space of Love -- Pt. VIII. Cyberspace -- 20. Third Wave Feminism and Cybersexuality: The Cultural Backlash of the New Girl Order -- 21. Girls Can Be Doctors and Boys Can Be Nurses: Surfing for Solutions to Gender Stereotyping -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

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