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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...

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...

A fun and entertaining mother-daughter story -- the perfect gift for Mother's Day.
Despite giving birth at the age of fifteen, Beth Jackson's professional life has gone from strength to strength. A successful TV journalist, she is celebrated for her parenting column and has won no less than three Mother of the Year awards.
Her daughter JJ is less inclined to agree. Underneath the surface, her relationship with her mother is far from award-winning, and as Beth misses yet another Mother's Day to jet-set around the globe, JJ decides it's time to persuade her into some good quality...

Undertaker Nina Sherwood is full of good advice. For example, never wear lip gloss when you're scattering ashes.

This is a wide-ranging account of the complex relations between Black communities and popular media, analysing the ways in which Black communities have been portrayed in film and television and considering the contribution made by Black media professionals.

Gender, Politics, News: A Game of Three Sides explores the role of gender in the broader processes of political communication

• The only contemporary book focusing on the relationships between gender, politics, and news media which takes a global perspective
• An analysis of political journalism as a practice and the development of the field in terms of gendered workplace cultures
• Offers a solid framework for understanding women's political representation, including real world case studies of women's campaigns for the top political job across a range of...

Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords now struggle to find support, as their potential to create positive social change in Israeli society is still unknown. In this volume, Ross considers the relationship between participation in Jewish-Palestinian encounters and the long-term worldview and commitment to social change of their participants.

Comprised of original research in diverse genres and medias, Women and Media: International Perspectives brings together eight international scholars to explore key issues of the gender-media relation.

• Provides important insights into how gender is implicated in media industries.
  
• Address key issues of the gender-media relation, from an analysis of news media's coverage of women politicians, to the marketing of 'girl power', to strategizing for equality in newsrooms.
  
• Highlights the theme that media have the potential both to...

Gender, Politics, News: A Game of Three Sides explores the role of gender in the broader processes of political communication

• The only contemporary book focusing on the relationships between gender, politics, and news media which takes a global perspective
• An analysis of political journalism as a practice and the development of the field in terms of gendered workplace cultures
• Offers a solid framework for understanding women's political representation, including real world case studies of women's campaigns for the top political job across a range of...

Chianti Souls is a magical tale of love, surprises and fate set in the heart of Tuscany -- in Chianti -- home of legendary wine and passionate Italian souls. When artist Mary Sarto visits for the first time she unexpectedly becomes tangled in vines of timeless love after she meets Luca Rusconi at a fifteenth-century Chianti farmhouse. An inexplicable connection rattles them, as if their love story continues from another lifetime...but neither is looking for love. Mary is visiting Italy with her boyfriend Garrett Hansen, who promised a dream vacation, and Luca is recovering from a recently...

Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where "gender" is not simply a shorthand for "woman" but also embraces masculinitiy/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on. The book is an overview of the various aspects of gender and media in one volume. The book provides introductory overviews to...

Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords now struggle to find support, as their potential to create positive social change in Israeli society is still unknown. In this volume, Ross considers the relationship between participation in Jewish-Palestinian encounters and the long-term worldview and commitment to social change of their participants.

"Birth the Treasure Within" is the ultimate tool for discovery and a greater awareness of who we are. A workbook / journal with sections to be inspired, to reflect and to write. We have unique and powerful gifts to be revealed and used for this time. Life happens and we choose how we react and move through situations and circumstances. We are unique, strong and powerful with great purpose. We are so much more than what we allow ourselves to be. Live YOUR greatest life. It is YOUR right.

" "a simple yet excellent overview of the multilayered path of audience research, tracing its evolution over the last century..." European Journal of Communication"

*How has the concept of 'the audience' changed over the past 50 years?
*How do audiences become producers and not just consumers of media texts?
*How are new media affecting the ways in which audiences are researched?
The audience has been a central concept in both in media and cultural studies for some considerable time, not least because there seems little point exploring forms of increasingly global communication...