Diversity in Gender and Visual
Representation
This book aims to encourage and develop understanding of the social category of gender, the concept of visual representation, and the relationship between the two, with contributions stimulating discussion within and between disciplines, research paradigms, and methods. By emphasising real world issues, drawn from across the globe, the book aims to contribute towards and inspire broader feminist activism.
Inviting readers to adopt an interdisciplinary spirit, the contributions suspend assumptions, and ask us to accept conceptual contradictions and tensions as they may arise, aspiring to (re)centre the concept of representation when considering the social category of gender within our dynamic and changing digital age. This book will be of interest to academics, students, and practitioners from a range of disciplines with an interest in gender studies and in particular the visual representation of gender.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies.
Russell Luyt is Head of the Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. His work is focused primarily on the social psychology of gender, looking at the cross-cultural intersection of gender, race and social class; the critique of traditional masculinity, femininity and gender measurement; media representations; masculinities and aggression; masculinities, prejudice and sexual minority groups; and qualitative methodologies.
Christina Welch is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, and leads the Masters course in Death, Religion and Culture, at the University of Winchester, UK. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with a research interest in the intersection between religions and material/visual culture. Gender is central to much of her work.
Rosemary Lobban is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. She has a background in both media and psychology, having studied and worked in both fields. Her specialisms include representations of gender in advertising, as well as masculinities and femininities from a critical, discursive perspective.
Diversity in Gender and Visual
Representation
Edited by
Russell Luyt, Christina Welch and Rosemary Lobban
First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The following chapters were originally published in the Journal of Gender Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Visualising the real and the fake: emotion work and the representation of orgasm in pornography and everyday sexual interactions
Hannah Frith
Journal of Gender Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015), pp. 386398
Chapter 2
Death and the erotic woman: the European gendering of mortality in times of major religious change
C. Welch
Journal of Gender Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015), pp. 399418
Chapter 3
Real and unreal masculinities: the celebrity image in anti-trafficking campaigns
Sarah L. Steele and Tyler Shores
Journal of Gender Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015), pp. 419435
Chapter 5
Transing the small screen: loving and hating transgender youth in Glee and Degrassi
Tom Sandercock
Journal of Gender Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015), pp. 436452
Chapter 6
Shaping the online fat acceptance movement: talking about body image and beauty standards
Adwoa A. Afful and Rose Ricciardelli
Journal of Gender Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015), pp. 453472
The following chapter was originally published in the Journal of Gender Studies (September 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 4
Does it pay to break male gender stereotypes in advertising? A comparison of advertisement effectiveness between the United Kingdom, Poland and South Africa
Magdalena Zawisza, Russell Luyt, Anne Maria Zawadzka and Jacek Buczny
Journal of Gender Studies (September 2016), DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2016.1234369
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Notes on Contributors
Adwoa A. Afful is a graduate student in the Department of Humanities, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her current research interests include critical fat theory, citizenship, feminist social movements, race, gender, and online social networks.
Jacek Buczny is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot, Poland. His research interests include the self-regulation and self-control of complex psychological behaviour, and mechanisms of addiction.
Adrienne Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Coventry University, UK. Her research is inspired by the way gender organises personal, social, intimate and cultural relationships, and how these relationships are shaped and reflected in media culture.
Hannah Frith is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests focus on the interrelationships between embodiment and identity.
Rosemary Lobban is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. She has a background in both media and psychology, having studied and worked in both fields. Her specialisms include representations of gender in advertising, as well as masculinities and femininities from a critical, discursive perspective.
