Gender and Popular Culture

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Gender and Popular Culture: A Visual Study</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> presents students with a thought-provoking and contemporary collection of readings that question and even undermine key binary dichotomies present in Western culture. The readings address three long-standing and pervasive dichotomies: male-female intellectual-popular and text-image. Students are encouraged to consider and reconsider cultural classifications what or who is left out mismatched or forced into these groups and what power differentials exist between them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The collection provides readers with a series of critical tools that allow them to critically examine the ways in which gender functions in contemporary Western and especially American culture. The anthology begins with a series of essays that present key theories and provide essential context. Later sections address stereotypes and tropes the representation of women in media and culture theories regarding single gender cultures race and representation the concept of space in relation to gender attitudes toward sex parenting reactions to feminism and more.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Designed to elicit thoughtful self-reflection and the development of new perspectives </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Gender and Popular Culture</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is a valuable text for courses in popular culture gender studies and women's studies.</span></p>