Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media

by Tonny Krijnen (Editor), Claudia Alvares, Sofie Van Bauwel

Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, Gendered Transformations offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics, embodied performance, and social constructions of reality, these essays explore a wide variety of concerns from a similarly wide variety of perspectives, from essentialist to anti-essentialist. A thought-provoking contribution to a number of disparate fields, Gendered Transformations offers a rare interdisciplinary approach to gender that reflects the most recent developments in media theory and methodology.

239 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2010

Reviews

[em petlev · Rating 3 out of 5]

i was so excited by the premise of this book and it’s not that the content is necessarily bad i just felt like i was reading a bunch of introductions to vastly different books. the essays did not seem to share enough to justify presenting them in this format; they seemed more like articles from different thematically focused issues of the same journal than book chapters literally printed on sides of the same page. i read too much of this to dnf it but did not really actively engage in reading it all. the structure and form made it frustrating to engage with but i can’t really judge all of the content as i didn’t consume it all hence the three stars