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These web pages and lecture notes are left as reference for those students
requiring CMIT modules to complete their programme only, and are not an
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SEX - Gender Issues Bibliography
- Media Awareness Network. A very useful set of Canadian resources dealing with many aspects of gender portrayal, stereotyping, feminity, masculinity etc., in the media, including magazines.
- ? 1976
- Women in Media. The Packaging of Women: How Women are Portrayed in Advertisements PA 659.1 PAC and at RobColl
- ? 1991
- 'Is this naked hypocrisy?', in The Sunday Express Nov 10th
(photocopy)
- Sex in advertising.
- ? 1992
- 'Calendar competition: a new breed of calendars has led away from the naked woman concept', in Graphics World Jan/Feb p. 18-19
- Adler, K. & Pointon, M. (eds) 1993
- The body imaged: human form and visual culture since the Renaissance 704.942 ADL
- Baker, C. 1995
- Advertising Works 8 659.1 ADV
- A series of chapters on individual advertising campaigns, including Gossard Wonderbra.
- Berryman, C. & Eman, V. (eds) 1980
- Communication, language, and sex. First Conference on Communication, Language, and Sex, 1978, Bowling Green State University 401.4 CON
- Butcher, M. 1974
- Images of women in the media St Luke's Pamphlet 301.412 BUT
- Chernin, K. 1983
- [The obsession]. Womansize : the tyranny of slenderness 616.398 CHE
- Coates, J. 1986
- Women, Men and Language
- Courtney, A. & Whipple, T. 1983
- Sex Stereotyping in Advertising
- Craik, J. 1994
- The face of fashion: cultural studies in fashion 391 CRA
- Davies, J. 1995
- 'It's not fun, it's bad taste', in Daily Telegraph 12.10.95
(photocopy)
- Discussion of bad taste(?) fashion photography in magazines, with editor of Dazed and Confused defending such photographs as being art.
- Durkin, K. 1985
- Television, sex roles and children: a developmental social psychological account 301.162 DUR
- Dutton, K 1995
- The Perfectable Body. The Western Ideal of Physical Development St Luke's
646.75 DUT
- a good discussion of how and what we perceive is beauty and desirable in bodies!!.
- Ferguson, M. 1983
- Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Feminity 301.161 FER and in St Luke's
- Gallagher, M. 1981
- Unequal opportunities: the case of women and the media 301.161 GAL
- Glassner, B. 1992
- Bodies. Overcoming the Tyranny of Perfection St Luke's 646.75
- Dscussion of the problems of body perception in America.
- Goffman, E. 1976
- Gender Advertisements 301.4
- Hartnett, O. et al. 1979
- Sex-role Stereotyping: Collected Papers St Luke's 301.41 HAR
- Humm, M. (ed.) 1992
- Feminisms: a reader 310.42 HUM
- Kroker, A. & M. (eds) 1988
- Body invaders: sexuality and the postmodern condition 801.95 BOD
- Lenars, C. & J. 1980
- Ritual and seduction: the human body as art. Photographs by Charles and Josette Lenars; text by André Virel 391.65 RIT/X
- MacDonald, J.R. ed. 1904
- Women in the Printing Trades S331.48 WOM
- Mandell, M.I. 1980
- Advertising 659.1 MAN
- Marks, E. & Courtivron I. de 1981
- New French feminisms: an anthology 301.4120944 NEW
- Marks, K. 1995
- 'Model agency boss attacks exploitative magazines', in Daily Telegraph (photocopy)
- Discussion of using rather sexual pictures of models in magazines.
- Millum, T. 1975
- Images of Women: advertising in women's magazines St Luke's 724.167 MIL
- Napoli, J. et al. 2003
- 'Female Gender Images in Adolescent Magazine Advertising', in Australasian Marketing Journal 11.1 pp. 60-69.
- Nead, L. 1992
- The Female Nude 704.9424 NEA
- How the preferred shape of nude female has changed over time.
- Nowicka, H. 1995
- 'Sex with minors', in Independent on Sunday 5.11.95 (photocopy)
- Discussion of using sexual imagery to sell classical music.
- Saunders, D. 1996
- Sex in Advertising 659.1 SAU
- A very good book on the role of sex and sexual imagery in advertising. A must read for any essay on this subject.
- Synnott, A. 1993
- The body social / symbolism, self and society 301.2 SYN
- Trkulja, M. 1991
- 'Are you shocked by this picture?' Sunday Express (photocopy)
- UNESCO 1980
- Women in the media 301.161 UNE
- Winship, J. 1987
- Inside Women's Magazines 301.161 WIN