Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader

Dines, Gail [Editor]; McMahon Humez, Jean [Editor];

ISBN 10: 076192261X / ISBN 13: 9780761922612

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076192261X
• ISBN 13: 9780761922612
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Incisive analyses of mass media – including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the Internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornography, and advertising―enable this provocative new edition of Gender, Race and Class in Media to engage students in critical mass media scholarship. Issues of power related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions, including the political economy of media production, textual analysis, and media consumption.

About the Authors

Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, where she is also chair of the American studies department. She has been researching and writing about the pornography industry for over twenty years. She has written numerous articles on pornography, media images of women, and representations of race in pop culture. Her latest book is PORNLAND: How Pornography has Hijacked our Sexuality. She is a cofounder of the activist group Stop Porn Culture!

Jean M. Humez is a professor emerita of women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she has taught courses in both women’s studies and American studies and chaired the women’s studies department. She designed and taught an undergraduate women and the media course early in her career, and came to collaborate with Gail Dines through her interest in media text analysis. She has also published books and articles on African American women’s spiritual and secular autobiographies, and on women and gender in Shaker religion. Her most recent book is Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories.