Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader

Incisive analyses of mass media – including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the Internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornography, and advertising—enable this provocative new edition of Gender, Race and Class in Media to engage students in critical mass media scholarship. Issues of power related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions, including the political economy of media production, textual analysis, and media consumption.

Coming largely from critical and politically progressive perspectives, 70 readings exploring issues in current media studies are presented by Dines (Wheelock College) and Humez (U. of Massachusetts). The editors draw from the fields of history, literary studies, philosophy, sociology, and psychology to present essays that look at the gender, race, and class issues that arise in examinations of the mass media in the United States. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

Jean M. Humez is professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts/Boston. In addition to media studies courses, she teaches courses in U.S. women's social and cultural history, and in American Studies. She has published books and articles on Shaker women and on African-American women's autobiography, and is at work on a book on Harriet Tubman.