Notes on Contributors viii <p>Acknowledgments xix</p> <p>Editor’s Introduction xx</p> <p><b>Part I Mediated Women 1</b></p> <p>1 The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship 3<br /> <i>Carolyn M. Byerly</i></p> <p>2 Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings 20<br /> <i>Claudia Bucciferro</i></p> <p>3 The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria 35<br /> <i>Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Stover</i></p> <p>4 Gossip Blogs and ‘Baby Bumps’: The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media 53<br /> <i>Erin Meyers</i></p> <p>5 Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls 71<br /> <i>Ilana Eleá</i></p> <p>6 Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse 88<br /> <i>Limor Shifman and Dafna Lemish</i></p> <p><b>Part II Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables 105</b></p> <p>7 Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man 107<br /> <i>Jeffery P. Dennis</i></p> <p>8 Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male Protagonist 118<br /> <i>Stuart Price</i></p> <p>9 Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes in Genre Films 135<br /> <i>Guido Ipsen</i></p> <p>10 Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11 157<br /> <i>Sarah Godfrey and Hannah Hamad</i></p> <p>11 Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos 174<br /> <i>Lynne Hibberd</i></p> <p>12 Studio5ive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing Masculine Identity 189<br /> <i>Claire Harrison</i></p> <p><b>Part III Queering the Pitch 205</b></p> <p>13 No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape 207<br /> <i>Katherine Sender</i></p> <p>14 The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony 226<br /> <i>Julie Scanlon</i></p> <p>15 Andro- phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word Audiences 241<br /> <i>Rebecca Kern</i></p> <p>16 Questioning Queer Audiences: Exploring Diversity in Lesbian and Gay Men’s Media Uses and Readings 260<br /> <i>Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons</i></p> <p>17 ‘In Touch’ with the Female Body: Cinema, Sport, and Lesbian Representability 277<br /> <i>Katharina Lindner</i></p> <p>18 Why Doesn’t your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters, and Contemporary Queer Theory 294<br /> <i>Martin Fradley</i></p> <p>19 Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Coming Out in US Teen Television Drama Series 313<br /> <i>Susan Berridge</i></p> <p>20 Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses 326<br /> <i>Matthew Heinz</i></p> <p>21 Transgendered Saints and Harlots: Reproduction of Popular Brazilian Transgender Stereotypes through Performance on Stage, on Screen, and in Everyday Life 344<br /> <i>Johannes Sjöberg</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Women, Men, and Gender</b> 363</p> <p>22 Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond 365<br /> <i>Cynthia Carter</i></p> <p>23 Colin Won’t Drink out of a Pink Cup 383<br /> <i>Barbara Mitra and Jenny Lewin- Jones</i></p> <p>24 Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read the ‘Knowing Wink’ in Advertising 401<br /> <i>Sue Abel</i></p> <p>25 Communication as Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze 419<br /> <i>Corinna Chong, Heather Molyneaux, and Hélène Fournier</i></p> <p>26 Dutch Moroccan Girls Performing their Selves in Instant Messaging Spaces 436<br /> <i>Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi</i></p> <p><b>Part V All about Sex 455</b></p> <p>27 Sex and the Media 457<br /> <i>Feona Attwood</i></p> <p>28 Deliciously Consumable: The Uses and Abuses of Irony in ‘Sex-Trafficking’ Campaign Films 470<br /> <i>Jane Arthurs</i></p> <p>29 The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover, and Mediated Sex 487<br /> <i>Laura Harvey and Rosalind Gill</i></p> <p>30 Enacting Bodies: Online Dating and New Media Practices 502<br /> <i>Begonya Enguix and Elisenda Ardévol</i></p> <p>31 Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era 516<br /> <i>Panayiota Tsatsou</i></p> <p>32 Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire 535<br /> <i>John Mercer</i></p> <p>Index 552</p>