Full Description
This edited collection brings together original empirical and theoretical insights into the complex set of relations which exist between age, gender, sexualities and the media in Europe.
This book investigates how engagements with media reflect people's constructions and understandings of gender in society, as well as articulations of age in relation to gender and sexuality; the ways in which negotiations of gender and sexuality inform people's practices with media, and not least how mediated representations may reinforce or challenge social hierarchies based in differences of gender, sexual orientation and age. In doing so, it showcases new and innovative research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. Including contributions from both established and early career scholars across Europe, it engages with a wide range of hotly debated topics within the context of gender, sexuality and the media, informing academic, public and policy agendas.
This collection will be of interest to students and researchers in gender studies, media studies, film and television, cultural studies, sexuality, ageing, sociology and education.
Contents
Editors' Introduction ; Part I: Young people, sexuality and gender performance: Texts and audiences ; 1. Feminist YouTubers in Spain: A public space for building resistance ; 2. Un/fit for young viewers: LGBT+ representation in Flemish and Irish children's television ; 3. Breaking the silence. Young people, sex information and the internet in Italy and Portugal ; 4. COVID-19 pandemic and discourses of anxiety about childhood sexuality in digital spaces ; Part II: Adults, sexuality, gender and the media in research perspective ; 5. HIV-related stigma in the European cinema: Conflictive representations of a cultural trauma ; 6. Buiuld it and they will come: Sex toys, heteronormativity and age ; 7. Fuelling hate: Hate speech towards women in online news websites in Albania ; 8. "Tell me how old I am": Cinema, pedagogy, adults and underage trans folks ; Part III: Elderly have a voice (?): Sexuality, gender and the media across texts and audiences ; 9. Invisible aged femininities in popular culture: Representational strategies deconstructed ; 10. "Old dirty pops and young hot chicks": Age differences in pornographic fantasies ; 11. Hustling and ageism in the films Eastern Boys and Brüder der Nacht ; 12. Ageing women on screen: Disgust, disdain and the Time's Up pushback ; 13. No Country for Old Men?: Representations of ageing body in contemporary pornography
