Murder, gender and the media: sexualizing politics and violence -- Pretty tough: the cult of femininity in women's magazines -- The impact of monitoring media images of women -- The great rock and roll swindle: the representation of women in the British rock music press -- The commercialization of masculinities: from the "new man" to the "new lad" -- Women and the internet: the natural history of a research project -- Sapphires, Spitfires, sluts and superbitches: aframericans and latinas in contemporary Hollywood film -- Women and soap opera: resistive readings

1. Mass media and women
2. Mass media criticism
3. Women in mass media
4. Sex role in mass media