Gender and Popular Culture

Volume 1: Key Concepts in Gender and Popular Culture

1. Simone De Beauvoir, ‘Concept of "Becoming Gender(ed)"’, in The Second Sex (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2010), pp. 3-17, 283, 294-296.
2. Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman, ‘Doing Gender’, Gender and Society, 1, 2, 1987, 125-151.
3. Judith Butler, ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’, falseTheatre Journal, 40, 4, 1988, 519-531.
4. Bev Skeggs, ‘The Toilet Paper: Femininity, Class and Mis-Recognition’, Women’s Studies International Forum, 24, 3/4, 2001, 295-307.
5. T. E. Perkins, ‘Rethinking Stereotypes’, in Michelle Barrett, Philip Corrigan, Annette Kuhn and Janet Wolff (eds), Ideology and Cultural Production (London: Croom Helm, 1979), pp. 135-159.
6. R. W. Connell, ‘The Effect of Structures’ and ‘Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity’, in Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987), pp. 180-188.

Part 2: Social History, Culture and the Analysis of Gender

7. Betty Friedan, ‘The Problem that Has No Name’, in The Feminine Mystique, 4^th ed. (London: Gollancz, 1971), pp. 15-32.
8. Michael Kimmel, extracts from Manhood in America: A Cultural History (New York: The Free Press, 1996), pp. 261-266, 272-283.
9. Sharon Hays, extracts from The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), pp. 97-108, 112-117, 120-130.
10. Angela McRobbie, ‘Postfeminsim and Popular Culture’, Feminist Media Studies, 4, 3, 2004, 255-264.
11. Ros Gill, ‘Post-postfeminism? New Feminist Visibilities in Postfeminist Times’, Feminist Media Studies, 16, 4, 2016, 610-630.

Part 3: Patriarchy, Inequality and Sex(uality)

12. Sylvia Walby, ‘Theorising Patriarchy’, Sociology, 23, 2, 1989, 213-234.
13. Nancy Fraser, ‘From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post Socialist’ Age’, New Left Review, 212, 1995, 68-93.
14. Liz Kelly, extracts from Surviving Sexual Violence Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988), pp. 74-78, 123-137.
15. Adrienne Rich, ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’, Signs:

Journal of Women, Culture and Society, 5, 4, 1980, 631–660.

16. Catherine MacKinnon, extracts from Only Words (London: Harper Collins, 1994), pp. 3-11, 19-21, 51-56.

Part 4: Bodies, Appearance and Control

17. Laura Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen, 16, 3, 1975, 6-18.
18. David Machin and Joanna Thornborrow, ‘Brading and Discourse: The Case of Cosmopolitan’, Discourse & Society, 14, 4, 2003, 453-471
19. Naomi Wolf, extracts from Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used against Women (London: Chatto & Windus, 1991), pp. 9-19, 27-37.
20. Susan Bordo, ‘Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture’, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 139-164.

　

　

Volume 2: Gender and Popular Cultural Production

Part 5: Key Texts on Gender and Work

21. Joan Acker, ‘Inequality Regimes Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations’

Gender and Society, 20, 4, 2006, pp. 441-464.

22. Lisa Adkins, ‘Cultural Feminization: "Money, Sex and Power" for Women’

Signs, 26, 3, 2001, 669-695.

　

Part 6: Pioneering Work on Gender and Cultural Production

23. Mavis Bayton, ' Women and the Electric Guitar,’ in S. Whiteley (ed.), Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 37-49.
24. Angela McRobbie and Jenny Garber, ‘Girls and subcultures’, in　S. Hall and T. Jefferson (eds), Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain 2^nd ed. (New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2006 [1975]), pp.　172-184.
25. Tricia Rose, ‘Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music’, in Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1994), pp. 146-154, 166-170.
26. Mary Celeste Kearney, ‘Delightful Employment: Girl’s Cultural Production Prior to the Late Twentieth Century’, in Girls Make Media (New York and London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 23-43.

Part 7: Case Studies of Gender and Popular Cultural Production in the Mass Media

27. Susan Christopherson, ‘Beyond the Self-expressive Creative Worker: An Industry Perspective on　Entertainment Media’, Theory Culture & Society 25, 7-8, 2008, 73-95.
28. Michelle Gregory, ‘Inside the Locker Room: Male Homosociability in the Advertising Industry’, Gender, Work & Organization, 16, 2009, 323–347.
29. Irena Grugulis and Dimitrinka Stoyanova, ‘Social Capital and Networks in Film and TV: Jobs for the Boys?’, Organization Studies, 33, 2012, 1311-1331.
30. Mark Banks and Katie Milestone, ‘Individualization, Gender and

Cultural Work’, Gender, Work and Organization, 18, 1, 2011, 73-89.

31. Maryann Erigha, ‘Race, Gender, Hollywood: Representation in Cultural Production and Digital Media’s Potential for Change’, Sociology Compass, 9, 1, 2015, 78-89.

Part 8: Ideal Types and the Creative Genius

32. Sarah B. Proctor-Thomson, ‘Gender Disruptions in the Digital Industries?’, Culture and Organization, 19, 2, 2013, 85-104.
33. Ana Alacovska, ‘Genre Anxiety: Women Travel Writers’ Experience of Work’, The Sociological Review, 63, S1, 2013, 128-143.
34. Cynthia Freeland, ‘Gender, Genius, and Guerrilla Girls’, Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 122-147.
35. Joanne Hollows, ‘Oliver’s Twist: Leisure, Labour and Domestic Masculinity in The

Naked Chef’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 6, 2, 2003, 229-248.

36. Rebekah Farrugia, ‘Building a Women-centered DJ Collective’, Feminist

Media Studies, 9, 3, 2009, 335-351.

37. Rosalind Gill ‘Cool, Creative and Egalitarian? Exploring Gender in Project-Based New Media Work in Euro’, Information, Communication & Society, 5, 1, 2002, 70-89.
38. Brooke Erin Duffy, ‘The Romance of Work: Gender and Aspirational Labour in the Digital Culture Industries’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19, 2016, 441-457.
39. Susan Luckman, ‘‘The Aura of the Analogue in a Digital Age: Women’s Crafts’, Creative Markets and Home-based Labour after Etsy’, Cultural Studies Review, 19,　1, 2013, 249-270.　
40. Alison Harvey and Stephanie Fisher, ‘"Everyone Can Make Games!": The Post-feminist Context of Women in Digital Game Production’, Feminist Media Studies, 15, 4, 2015, 576-592.

　

　

Volume 3: Representation and Discourse

　

Part 9: Media Representations and Their Power

41. Frank Mort, ‘Boy’s Own? Masculinity, Style and Popular Culture’, in R. Chapman and J. Rutherford (eds) Male Order: Unwrapping Masculinity (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988), pp. 193-225.
42. Diane Negra, (2004) 'Quality Postfeminism?: Sex and the Single Girl on HBO', Genders, 39, April 2004.
43. Estella Ticknell, Deborah Chambers, Joost Van Loon and Nichola Hudson, ‘Begging for It: "New Femininities", Social Agency, and Moral Discourse in Contemporary Teenage and Men’s Magazines’, Feminist Media Studies, 3, 1, 2003, 47-63.
44. Anneke Meyer, ‘''Too Drunk To Say No": Binge Drinking, Rape and the Daily Mail', Feminist Media Studies, vol. 10, 1, 2010, 19-34.
45. Brian McNair, ‘Porno-chic, or the Pornographication of the Mainstream’, in Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 61-87.
46. Emily Finch and Vanessa E. Munro, ‘The Demon Drink and the Demonized Woman: Socio-Sexual Stereotypes and Responsibility Attribution in Rape Trials Involving Intoxicants’, Social & Legal Studies, 16, 4, 2007, 591-614.

Part 10: Self-Representation and Performance of Gender

47. Margaret Wetherell and Nigel Edley, ‘Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity: Imaginary

Positions and Psycho-Discursive Practices’, Feminism & Psychology, 9, 3, 1999, 335-356.

48. Yow-Juin Wang, ‘Internet Dating Sites as Heterotopias of Gender Performance: A Case Study of Taiwanese Heterosexual Male Daters’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 15, 5, 2011, 485-500.
49. Valerie Walkerdine, ‘Playing The Game: Young Girls Performing Femininity in Video Game Play’, Feminist Media Studies, 6, 4, 2006, 519-537.
50. Amy Shields Dobson, ‘Performative Shamelessness on Young Women’s Social Network Sites: Shielding the Self and Resisting Gender Melancholia’, Feminism & Psychology, 24, 1, 2014, 97-114.
51. Niels Van Doorn, ‘Digital Spaces, Material Traces: How Matter Comes to Matter in Online Performances of Gender, Sexuality and Embodiment’, Media, Culture & Society, 33, 4, 2011, 531-547.

Part 11: Intersections: Gender, Ethnicity and Social Class

52. Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood, ‘The Labour of Transformation and Circuits of Value "Around" Reality Television’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 22, 4, 2008, 559-572.
53. Imogen Tyler and Bruce Bennet, ‘"Celebrity Chav": Fame, Femininity and Social Class’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13, 3, 2010, 375-393.
54. Rebecca Reviere and Carolyn M. Byerley, ‘Sexual Messages in Black and White: A Discourse Analysis of Essence and Cosmo’, Feminist Media Studies, 13, 4, 2013, 676-692.
55. Myra Macdonald, ‘Muslim Women and the Veil: Problems of Image and Voice in Media Representations’, Feminist Media Studies, 6, 2, 2006, 7-23.
56. Yvonne Tasker, ‘Black Buddies and White Heroes: Racial Discourse in the Action Cinema’, in Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 35-53.

　

Part 12: Digital Culture and Gender

57. Tracey Jensen, ‘"Mumsnettiquette": Online Affect within Parenting Cultures’, in P. Aggleton (ed.), Privilege, Affect and Agency: Understanding the Production of Effects and Action (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 127-145.
58. Shenila Khoja-Moolji, ‘Becoming an "Intimate Publics": Exploring the Affective Intensities of Hashtag Feminism’, Feminist Media Studies, 15, 2, 2015, 347-350.
59. Rena Bivens, ‘The Gender Binary Will Not Be Deprogrammed: Ten Years of Coding Gender on Facebook’, New Media and Society, 2015, 1-19.
60. Alice E. Marwick, ‘Designed in California: Entrepreneurship and the Myths of Web 2.0’, in Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 245-272.

　

Volume 4: Gender identity and Popular Culture

　

Part 13: Foundational Issues

61. Iris Marion Young, ‘Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality’.　Human Studies,　3, 2, 1980, 137-156.　　　
62. Joke Hermes, ‘On Stereotypes, Media and Redressing Gendered Social Inequality’,　Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, 2, 2, 2010, pp. 181-187.
63. Angela McRobbie, ‘Young Women And Consumer Culture:　An Intervention’, Cultural Studies, 22, 5, 2008, 531-550.　
64. Anamik Saha, ‘"Beards, Scarves, Halal Meat, Terrorists, Forced Marriage": Television Industries and the Production of "Race", Media, Culture and Society, 34, 4, 2012, 424-438.
65. Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad, ‘Confidence Culture and the Remaking of Feminism’, New Formations, 91, 2017, 16-34

　

Part 14: Genres, Gender and Popular Culture

66. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker, ‘Neoliberal Frames and Genres of Inequality: Recession-era Chick Flicks and Male-centred Corporate Melodrama’,　European Journal of Cultural Studies　16, 2013, 344-361.
67. Ebony Thomas and Amy Stornaiuolo, Restorying the Self:Bending Toward Textual Justice, Harvard Educational Review, 86, 3, 2016, 313-338.
68. Robin James, ‘Is the Post- in Post-identity the Post- in Post Genre?’, Popular Music, 36, 1, 2017, 21-32.
69. Kim Allen, Laura Harvey and Heather Mendick,　‘"Justin Bieber Sounds Girlie": Young People’s Celebrity Talk and Contemporary Masculinities’,　Sociological Research Online,　20, 3, 2015. 　
70. Sue　Jackson and Tiina　Vares, ‘"Too Many Bad Role Models for Us Girls": Girls, Female Pop Celebrities and "sexualization"’,　Sexualities,　18, 4, 2016, 480-498.

Part 15: Gender and Digital Bodies

71. Katrin　Tiidenberg and　Edgar　Gómez Cruz, ‘Selfies, Image and the Re-making of the Body’, Body & Society, 21, 4, 2015, 77-102.
72. Jamie Hakim, ‘"The Spornosexual": The Affective Contradictions of Male Body-work in Neoliberal Digital Culture’, Journal of Gender Studies, 27, 2, 2016, 231-241.
73. Tobias Raun, ‘Video Blogging as a Vehicle of Transformation: Exploring the Intersection between Trans Identity and Information Technology’, International Journal of Cultural Studies,　18, 3, 2014, 365-378.
74. Alexander Dhoest and Lukasz Szulc, ‘Navigating Online Selves: Social, Cultural and Material Contexts of Social Media Use by Diasporic Gay Men’, Social Media and Society, 2, 4, 2016, 1-10.
75. Adrienne　Shaw: Gaming, ‘Do You Identify as a Gamer? Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Gamer Identity’,　New Media & Society, 14, 1, 2011, 28-44.

Part 16: Space, Place and Gendered Identity

　

76. Anoop Nayak, ‘Last of the "Real Geordies"? White Masculinities and the Subcultural Response to Deindustrialisation’,　Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,　21, 2003,　7-25.
77. Katie Milestone, ‘"Northernness", Gender and Manchester’s Creative Industries, Journal for Cultural Research, 20, 1, 2016, 45-59.
78. Sian Lincoln, ‘"Styling" Teenage Private Space: Identity, Fashion and Consumption in Girls’ Bedrooms’, Film, Fashion and Consumption, 2, 2, 2013, 121-137.
79. Church Gibson:　‘Pornostyle: Sexualised Dress and the Fracturing of Feminism’, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 18, 2, 2014, 189-206.　
80. Jessica Ringrose and Emma Renold, ‘Slut Shaming, Girl Power and "Sexualisation": Thinking through the Politics of International Slut Walks with Teen Girls’, Gender and Education, 24, 3, 2012, 333-343.