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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Body Electric -- Human Sexuality and Mass Media; GAYS, LESBIANS, AND POPULAR CULTURE; Out of the Mainstream: Sexual Minorities and the Mass Media; AIDS AND THE MASS MEDIA; Sensationalism or Sensitivity: Use of Words in Stories on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) by Associated Press Videotext; The Important Role of Mass Media in the Diffusion of Accurate Information About AIDS; RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENT SEXUAL SOCIALIZATION; Television Viewing and Adolescents' Sexual Behavior |
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Television Viewing and Early Initiation of Sexual Intercourse: Is There a Link?INTERPRETING CONTENT/CONSTRUCTING MEANING; Sex and Genre on Prime Time; Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Upsetting the Normalcy of the Late-Night Talk Show; Of Mice and Men: An Introduction to Mouseology Or, Anal Eroticism and Disney; The Magazine of a Sadomasochism Club: The Tie That Binds; The Gay Voice in Popular Music: A Social Value Model Analysis of ""Don't Leave Me This Way""; SEXUAL MINORITIES AND COMMUNICATION LAW; Lesbian and Gay Rights as a Free Speech Issue: A Review of Relevant Caselaw; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Gays, Lesbians, and the Media: A Selected BibliographyILLUSTRATIONS; Fear -- Deception -- Irrationality (mixed media photographic print with oils) and We Watch Television (multiple negative silver print); Self-Fusion (photograph) |
| Summary |
Here is a provocative book that examines precisely how and why mass communication has an impact upon the sexual realities of our lives. Written in response to a demand for information that cuts across many of the boundaries found in more traditional books on sexuality and mass communication, Gay People, Sex, and the Media covers a broad range of sexual identity, socialization, and mass communication issues and represents a variety of theoretical and methodological orientations. Although the chapters are diverse, they all focus on how the mass media--television, radio, films, newspapers, magazi |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media and sex.
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Gay people.
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male homosexuality.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Gay people
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Mass media and sex
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wolf, Michelle Andrea.
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Kielwasser, Alfred P.
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| ISBN |
9781317953708 |
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1317953703 |
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