Featuring females
Subtitle: feminist analyses of media
By: edited by Ellen Cole and Jessica Henderson Daniel.
Contributors: Cole, Ellen.; Daniel, Jessica Henderson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Psychology of women book series
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Women in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The impact of media use on girls' beliefs about gender roles, their bodies, and sexual relationships / L. Monique Ward & Kristen Harrison; title: "He left her for the alien" / C. Lynn Sorsoli, Michelle V. Porche, & Deborah L. Tolman; title: The media's role in body image and eating disorders / Stefanie C. Gilbert, Helene Keery, & J. Kevin Thompson; title: Clash of cultures / Diana Zuckerman & Nikki Dubowitz; title: Outcast, outlast, out-flirt? The women of reality TV / Laura S. Brown; title: Narratives of gender in computer advertising / Laura J. Burlingame-Lee & Silvia Sara Canetto; title: Hollywood's portrayal of psychologists and psychiatrists / Harriet T. Schultz; title: Violence, sex, race, and age in popular video games / Karen E. Dill ... [et al.]; title: Mama bears, bitches, and monsters / Lynn Edith Paulson; title: Violence and women / Elizabeth K. Carll; title: Gender and the portrayal of direct and indirect aggression on television / Norma D. Feshbach; title: African-American women in search of scripts / Thema Bryant-Davis; title: Reflection and distortion / Janis Sanchez-Hucles, Patrick S. Hudgins, & Kimberly Gamble; title: Aging to perfection or perfectly aged? the image of women growing older on television / Kim S. Kjaersgaard.