Description
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life.
The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within the field, bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds including cultural studies, education, history, media studies, sexuality studies and sociology.
The volume presents a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives, as authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries, queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos, sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography and erotica, and social and mobile media.
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual identity, bodies and media technologies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Representing sexualities
1. The Normal Body on Display: public exhibitions of the Norma and Normman statues
Elizabeth Stephens
2. Asexualities and media
Kristina Gupta and Karli June Cerankowski
3. Representing trans sexualities
Eliza Steinbock
4. Representing lesbians in film and television
Rebecca Beirne
5. Representing gay sexualities
Sharif Mowlabocus
6. Fifty shades of ambivalence: BDSM representation in pop culture
Ummni Khan
7. The politics of fluidity: representing bisexualities in twenty-first-century screen media
Maria San Filippo
8. Heterosexual casual sex: from free love to Tinder
Kath Albury
9. Representing queer sexualities
Dion Kagan
Part II Sex genres
10. Erotica
Catherine M. Roach
11. A history of slash sexualities: debating queer sex, gay politics, and media fan cultures
Kristina Busse and Alexis Lothian
12. Erotic manga: Boys’ Love, shonen-ai, yaoi and (MxM) shotacon
Anna Madill
13. Ways of showing it: feature and gonzo in mainstream pornography
Federico Zecca
14. From the scene, for the scene! Alternative pornographies in contemporary US production
Giovanna Maina
15. ‘Not on public display’: the art/porn debate
Gary Needham
16. User-generated pornography: amateurs and the ambiguity of authenticity
Susanna Paasonen
17. Celebrity sex tapes
Gareth Longstaff
18. The media panic about teen sexting
Amy Adele Hasinoff
19. Sex advice books and self-help
Meg-John Barker, Rosalind Gill and Laura Harvey
20. Social media platforms and sexual health
Paul Byron
21. Young people, sexuality education, and the media
Anne-Frances Watson
Part III Representing sex
22. Videogames and sex
Ashley M.L. Brown
23. Sex and celebrity media
Adrienne Evans
24. Sex and music video
Diane Railton
25. Debating representations of sexuality in advertising
Despina Chronaki
26. Media representations of women in action sports: more than ‘sexy bad girls’on boards
Holly Thorpe
27. Sex and horror
Steve Jones
28. Sex in sitcoms: unravelling the discourses on sex in Friends
Frederik Dhaenens and Sofie Van Bauwel
29. Sex and reality TV: the pornography of intimate exposure
Misha Kavka
30. It’s all about your sex appeal: deconstructing the sexual content
in women’s magazines
Claire Moran
31. The invisibles: disability, sexuality and new strategies of enfreakment
Niall Richardson
Part IV Deconstructing key figures
32. The metrosexual
John Mercer and Feona Attwood
33. The sex addict
Barry Reay
34. The stripper
Alison J Carr
35. The pen is mightier than the whore: Victorian newspapers and the sex-work saviour complex
Kate Lister
36. The pornography consumer as Other
Alan McKee
37. The porn performer
Angela Gabrielle White
38. The dominatrix
Danielle J. Lindemann
39. The pervert
Lauren Rosewarne
40. The pornographer
Neil Jackson
