Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between (eBook, ePUB)

Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media
Redaktion: Reinhard, Carrielynn D.; Olson, Christopher J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Current characters in children's entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children's entertainment media around the world has consistently depicted stereotypically traditional gender roles and heterosexual relationships as the normal way that people act and engage with one another. Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media examines how this media ecology now includes a presence for nonheteronormative genders and sexualities. It considers representations of such identities in various media products (e.g., comic books, television shows, animated films, films, children's literature) meant for children (e.g., toddlers to teenagers). The contributors seek to identify and understand characterizations that go beyond these traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. By doing so, they explore these nontraditional representations and consider what they say about the current state of children's entertainment media, popular culture, and global acceptance of these gender identities and sexualities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498539586
• Artikelnr.: 49207582

Autorenporträt

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard is associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Dominican University. Christopher J. Olson is Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee with a media, cinema, and digital studies concentration.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Looking Past Stereotypes of Gender Identity and Sexuality in
Children's Media-CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, and Susan G.
Kahlenberg
Chapter 1: SheZow: Costume Changes and Gender Non-Conformity-Rebecca Feasey
Chapter 2: A Little Queer: Ambivalence and the Work of Gender Play in
Children's Literature- Jennifer Miller
Chapter 3: Hungry for Change: Analysis and Application of The Hunger
Games-Chrys Egan
Chapter 4: "I'll Show You What a Girl Is": Analyzing Non-Stereotypical
Representations of Gender on Liv & Maddie-Nancy Bressler
Chapter 5: "She really knows her stuff": Counter-hegemonic Messages about
Gender in Disney Junior's Doc McStuffins-Jerralyn R. R. Moudry
Chapter 6: Female Gender Modeling Between Now and Then: Two Western
Cartoons and Their Resonance with an Arab Culture-Fatima Q. Al Hattami and
Richard J. Schaefer
Chapter 7: Cold, Tactless, Brave, Heroic, Technowizards: The New Feminine
of Mattel's Fashion Dolls-Sara Aust