TY - BOOK AU - Carstarphen,Meta G. AU - Zavoina,Susan C. TI - Sexual rhetoric: media perspectives on sexuality, gender, and identity T2 - Contributions to the study of mass media and communications, SN - 0313307881 AV - P96.S45 S49 1999 U1 - 306.7 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Greenwood Press KW - Mass media and sex KW - Sex differences in mass media KW - Sex role in mass media KW - Mass media and culture N1 - 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 ER -