Author: Kenneth MacKinnon Publisher: Hodder Education ISBN: 9780340808320 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
Arguing that several aspects of masculinity are in fact ideals rather than realities, created and reinforced by the mass media, Kenneth MacKinnon alerts readers to the processes and purposes of such media representations and blatant manipulation.
Author: Marlis Hellinger Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027297665 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.
Author: Brian Baker Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1847062628 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 186
Book Description
Covers wide range of popular British and American fiction and film including Westerns, spy fiction, science fiction and crime narratives.
Author: Ben Crewe Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
"Applying a cultural-economic approach and drawing on interviews with key figures at the sector's leading products, Crewe unwraps the means through which publishing companies comprehended and addressed the men's magazine audience in the 1990s. He argues that it was informal knowledge about cultures of masculinity held by editorial practitioners that was decisive in constituting individual magazines and the overall character of the sector." -- BACK COVER.