Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Notes on Contributors (p. viii)
• Acknowledgments (p. xix)
• Editor's Introduction (p. xx)
• Part I Mediated Women (p. 1)
• 1 The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship (p. 3)
• 2 Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings (p. 20)
• 3 The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria (p. 35)
• 4 Gossip Blogs and 'Baby Bumps': The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media (p. 53)
• 5 Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls (p. 71)
• 6 Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse (p. 88)
• Part II Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables (p. 105)
• 7 Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man (p. 107)
• 8 Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male Protagonist (p. 118)
• 9 Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes in Genre Films (p. 135)
• 10 Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11 (p. 157)
• 11 Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos (p. 174)
• 12 Studio5ive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing Masculine Identity (p. 189)
• Part III Queering the Pitch (p. 205)
• 13 No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape (p. 207)
• 14 The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony (p. 226)
• 15 Andro-phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word Audiences (p. 241)
• 16 Questioning Queer Audiences: Exploring Diversity in Lesbian and Gay Men's Media Uses and Readings (p. 260)
• 17 'In Touch' with the Female Body: Cinema, Sport, and Lesbian Representability (p. 277)
• 18 Why Doesn't your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters, and Contemporary Queer Theory (p. 294)
• 19 Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Corning Out in US Teen Television Drama Series (p. 313)
• 20 Transmen on the Web: inscribing Multiple Discourses (p. 326)
• 21 Transgendered Saints and Harlots: Reproduction of Popular Brazilian Transgender Stereotypes through Performance on Stage, on Screen, and in Everyday Life (p. 344)
• Part IV Women, Men, and Gender (p. 363)
• 22 Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond (p. 365)
• 23 Colin Won't Drink out of a Pink Cup (p. 383)
• 24 Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read the 'Knowing Wink' in Advertising (p. 401)
• 25 Communication as Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze (p. 419)
• 26 Dutch Moroccan Girls Performing their Selves in Instant Messaging Spaces (p. 436)
• Part V All about Sex (p. 455)
• 27 Sex and the Media (p. 457)
• 28 Deliciously Consumable: The Uses and Abuses of Irony in 'Sex-Trafficking' Campaign Films (p. 470)
• 29 The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover, and Mediated Sex (p. 487)
• 30 Enacting Bodies: Online Dating and New Media Practices (p. 502)
• 31 Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era (p. 516)
• 32 Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire (p. 535)
• Index (p. 552)