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Live Flesh demonstrates how contemporary Spanish films have contributed to a re-shaping of the masculine image. The authors explore the complexity and diversity of these images, while focusing on Spanish films of the democratic period, both popular and auteur. Analysis is drawn from examples of directors, both of national and international prominence, such as Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Bigas Luna, and Julio Medern, as well as films featuring...

"This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur...

"Game of Thrones, one of the hottest series on television leaves hundreds of critics divided on how "feminist" the show really is. Certainly the female characters embody a spectrum of archetypes. However, the problematic area is that most of them play a single role without nuance. This book analyzes the women and their portrayals one by one"--

"Susan Mann focuses on the often neglected issue of the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from the late imperial times to modern times"-- In this book the author focuses on the often neglected issue of the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from the late imperial times to modern times. Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that philosophers, writers, parents,...

"Rivers exposes the many ways news media distort stories about women. According to Rivers, theses stories "sell" because they play to the fears of affluent women, one of the most desirable consumer markets. River's topics, literally "pulled from the headlines," include negative representations of working mothers and "latch-key" kids, stories that exaggerate the perils of childcare and divorce, media treatments of powerful political figures like Elizabeth...

The book describes prevailing beliefs about the differences between men and women and examines the extent to which they are explicit or implicit (nonconscious). Chapters identify ways in which gender attitudes affect our expectations, judgments, feelings, and behavior. The rewards of conforming to stereotypes such as feminine "niceness" or masculine assertiveness-and the costs of deviating from them-are discussed. The volume also addresses the broader...

"Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. Reading popular representations of sex against actual behavior reveals the clash of meanings given to sex and illuminates struggles to recast sexuality in order to eliminate its subversive potential."...

"More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households. Adding together time in paid work, child care, and housework, she found that working mothers put in a month of work a year more than their spouses. Updated for a workforce now half...

"Gender Capital at Work uses new data from interviews with nurses, social workers, exotic dancers and hairdressers to explore the processes involved in producing and reproducing gendered and classed workers and occupations. In doing so, this book argues that femininity, femaleness, masculinity and maleness work as assets in feminised occupations and that the concept 'gender capital' may help researches to better understand the complex relationship...

An exploration of the Goth subculture that addresses gender and sexual politics and discusses media, fashion, identity, and other related topics.