The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights
into the complex set of relations which exist between gender
sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new
research at the forefront of media and communication practice and
theory. Brings together a collection of new, cutting-edge
research exploring a number of different facets of the broad
relationship between gender and media Moves beyond associating
gender with man/woman and instead considers the relationship
between the construction of gender norms, biological sex and the
mediation of sex and sexuality Offers genuinely new insights
into the complicated and complex set of relations which exist
between gender, sex, sexualities and the media Essay topics
range from the continuing sexism of TV advertising to ways in
which the internet is facilitating the (re)invention of our
sexual selves