Full Description
This book aims to encourage and develop understanding of the social category of gender, the concept of visual representation, and the relationship between the two, with contributions stimulating discussion within and between disciplines, research paradigms, and methods. By emphasising 'real world' issues, drawn from across the globe, the book aims to contribute towards and inspire broader feminist activism.
Inviting readers to approach in an interdisciplinary spirit, the contributions suspend assumptions, and ask us to accept conceptual contradictions and tensions as they may arise, aspiring to (re)centre the concept of representation when considering the social category of gender within our dynamic and changing digital age. This book will be of interest to academics, students, and practitioners from a range of disciplines with an interest in gender studies and in particular the visual representation of gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies.
Contents
Introduction: Diversity in gender and visual representation 1. Visualising the 'real' and the 'fake': emotion work and the representation of orgasm in pornography and everyday sexual interactions 2. Death and the erotic woman: the European gendering of mortality in times of major religious change 3. Real and unreal masculinities: the celebrity image in anti-trafficking campaigns 4. Does it pay to break male gender stereotypes in advertising? A comparison of advertisement effectiveness between the United Kingdom, Poland and South Africa 5. Transing the small screen: loving and hating transgender youth in Glee and Degrassi 6. Shaping the online fat acceptance movement: talking about body image and beauty standards 7. Diversity in gender and visual representation: a commentary
