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Gender Studies & Mass Media Reading List
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Note: Many articles in refereed scholarly journals appearing under various subject headings in this Educators Toolbox contain are at least tangentially related to broadly defined gender issues. However, articles on this list are especially concerned with gender.
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| “Tackling the Issues: Meaning Making in a Telenovela,” by Acosta-Alzuru, Carolina (2003). Popular Communication 1(4), p193. |
| “When Jill Jacks In,” by Bryson, Mary (2004). Feminist Media Studies 4(3):239 (November). |
| “Bodies, Movements and Desires: Lesbian/Gay Subjectivity and the Stereotype,” by Cover, Rob (2004). Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18(1):81 (March), |
| “What WOZ,” by Davis, Reid (2001). Film Quarterly 55(2):2 (Winter). |
| “The Queen in Shining Armor,” by Dreisinger, Baz (2000). Journal of Popular Film & Television 28(1):2 (Spring). |
| “Making a gay masculinity,” by Fejes, Fred (2000). Critical Studies in Media Communication 17(1):113 (March). |
| “Invisibility, Homophobia and Heterosexism: Lesbians, Gays and the Media,” by Fejes, Fred & Petrich, Kevin (1993). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 10(4): 395 (December). |
| “Why Saddam Is Gay: Masculinity Politics in South Park-Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,” by Gardiner, Judith Kegan (2005). Quarterly Review of Film & Video 22(1):51 (January). |
| “Coverage of Gay Males, Lesbians In Newspaper Lifestyle Sections,” by Gibson, Rhonda (2004). Newspaper Research Journal 25(3):90 (Summer). |
| The Columbia Reader on Lesbian & Gay Men in Media, Society & Politics, edited by Larry Gross and James D. Woods (1999). New York: Columbia University Press. |
| “Drag queen as angel,” by Hammond, Joyce (1996). Journal of Popular Film & Television 24(3):106 (Fall). |
| “Sexing The Crying Game,” by Handler, Kristin (1994). Film Quarterly 47(3):31. |
| “The Influence of Gender on Public Attitudes toward Homosexual Rights in Britain,” by Hayes, Bernadette C. (1997). |
| International Journal of Public Opinion Research 9(4), p361 (Winter). |
| “Gender Gaps in Public Opinion about Lesbians and Gay Men,” by Herek, Gregory M. (2002). Public Opinion Quarterly 66(1):40 (Spring). |
| “Gender Transgression and Villainy in Animated Film,” by Li-Vollmer, Meredith & LaPointe, Mark E. (2003). Popular Communication 1(2):89 (Spring). |
| “American Television Discovers Gay Women: The Changing Context of Programming Decisions at the Networks,” by Moritz, Marguerite J. (1989). Journal of Communication Inquiry 13(2):62 (Summer). |
| “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Confirming and confounding masculinity,” by Morrish, Liz & O'Mara, Kathleen (2004). Feminist Media Studies 4(3): 350 (November). |
| “Dragon Ladies, Draggin' Men: Some Reflections on Gender, Drag and Homosexual Communities,” by Murray, Sarah E. (1994). Public Culture 6(2): 343 (Winter). |
| “The Conflation of Male Homosexuality and Femininity in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” by Ramsey, E. Michele & Santiago, Gladys (2004). Feminist Media Studies 4(3): 353 (November). |
| “Designed for (Male) Pleasure: The Myth of Lesbian Chic in Mainstream Advertising,” by Reichert, Tom, Kevin R. Maly and Susan C. Zavoina. (1999), in Meta Carstarphen and Susan C. Zavoina (eds.), Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press). |
| “Gays and Lesbians,” by Shapiro, Michael (1990). American Speech 65(2): 191. |
| “On Misfits and Margins: Narrative, Resistance, and the Poster Child Politics of Rosie O'Donnell,” by Shugart, Helene A. (2005). Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies 2(1):52 (March). |
| “Reinventing Privilege: The New (Gay) Man in Contemporary Popular Media,” by Shugart, Helene A. (2003). Critical Studies in Media Communication 20(1): 67 (March). |
| “Male voices and perceived sexual orientation: An experimental and theoretical approach,” by Smyth, Ron; Jacobs, Greg; & Rogers, Henry (2003). Language in Society 32(3):329 (Jun), 22p, 5 charts. |
| “Playgrounds of Desire: Almodovar, Fetishism, and the Male Ideal Ego,” by Williams, Bruce (2000). Journal of Film & Video 52(2):28 (Summer). |
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