Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media. This item is unavailable.Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media

Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, Gendered Transformations offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics, embodied performance, and social constructions of reality, these essays explore a wide variety of concerns from a similarly wide variety of perspectives, from essentialist to anti-essentialist. A thought-provoking contribution to a number of disparate fields, Gendered Transformations offers a rare interdisciplinary approach to gender that reflects the most recent developments in media theory and methodology.

Tonny Krijnen is assistant professor in the Media Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Claudia Alvares is associate professor in culture and communication at Lusofona University. Sofie Van Bauwel is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Ghent and vice chair of the Gender and Communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association.