"This fine collection of perspectives and information will fill a major gap and help to push communication study in an urgently needed direction. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty alike have much to gain from this text."--John Downing, Department of Radio-Television…
Gender, race, and class in media: a text-reader
Analyses of mass media - including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornography, and advertising - and issues of power related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the econ…
Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader
"Written in response to the author's in-depth discussions with men who were inspired by her trilogy, All About Love, Salvation, and Communion, bell hook's The Will to Change addresses maleness and masculinity in new and challenging ways. With trademark candor and fierce intellig…
Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures and societies, across time, share in common. It has defined not only the ways in which individuals relate to each other, but also how colle…
Gavin Butt offers a reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid 20th century.
Männer: Körper, Sex, Gesundheit
by Harrison, Louis, Henning, Ann-Marlene, Bay-Hansen, Jesper, Engelhardt, Erik
fromRororo
"Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as 'evil'. This is hotly contested territory, not least where sexual violence is concerned - violence which feminist voice…
Mann und Frau: d. emotionalen Variationen d. Sexualität
by Reik, Theodor, Reik, Theodor
fromFischer
A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight- -her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a wo…
A candid and provocative critique of women's sexual liberation in America. Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startling statistics call into question this perceived victory: over half…
A candid and provocative critique of women's sexual liberation in America. Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startling statistics call into question this perceived victory: over half…