The Media and Gender Reader
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780335210985
Subjects: Cultural studies; Gender Studies; Media Studies; Media, information & communication industries; Mass Media - General; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: The media are important for many reasons, including their long acknowledged power to represent 'socially acceptable' ways of being or relating to others, as well as to allocate, or more usually withhold, public recognition, honour and status to groups of people.