Marcia Texler Segal (Indiana University Southeast, USA), Vasilikie Demos (University of Minnesota-Morris, USA)
Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender and the Media: Women’s Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of what is there, as well as what is missing. Their focus is on women. Networks of the cyberbullying of women of color are rendered graphically and the agency claimed by women in Western Sahara refugee camps is shown in photos. How college women and men respond to the masculinity reflected in hip-hop lyrics and videos, and what it feels like to be a woman in a comic...
Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender a...