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Sexism in the media / by Harris, Duchess.(CARDINAL)494649;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-109) and index.Sexism at the Summer Olympics -- Sexism in advertising -- Portrayal of women on-screen -- Sexism and the music industry -- Women in the news -- Working in the media industry -- Effects on society -- Working for change in the media -- Essential facts.1210L
Subjects: Sexism; Sexism in mass media; Social history; Sexism.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A hole in the story : a novel / by Kalfus, Ken,author.(CARDINAL)682358;
At his desk one day, prominent Washington commentator Adam Zweig receives a text message. "Btw want to give you a heads-up abt some breaking news," it reads. "Call soonest." These are the early rumblings of an eventual media storm generated by small-town reporter Valerie Iovine, who has gone public with her account of sexual harassment at the hands of esteemed editor and liberal icon Max Lieberthol. Twenty years have passed since the incident, and though Adam wasn't directly involved, he quickly finds himself implicated and entangled, his career under imminent threat. Adam has never forgotten his history with as former colleagues, their workplace collaboration had gradually tipped into a mutual romantic attraction. Or so he believed. Confronted by the claims against his former boss and a growing awareness of rampant sexism in his industry, Adam, who had always thought of himself as progressive, is forced to challenge his own assumptions over the years. What once seemed incidental becomes sinister; what once seemed like a blundering encounter helped derail a young woman's promising career.
Subjects: Political fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Journalism; Journalists; Sexism in mass media; Press and politics;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Homebodies : a novel / by Denton-Hurst, Tembe,author.(CARDINAL)869077;
Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter. She has a flashy media job that makes her feel successful and a devoted girlfriend who takes care of her when she comes home exhausted and demoralized. It's not all A-list parties and steamy romance, but Mickey's on her way, and it's far from the messy life she left behind in Maryland. Despite being overlooked and mistreated at work, it seems like she might finally get the chance to prove herself--until she finds out she's being replaced. Distraught and enraged, Mickey fires back with a detailed letter outlining the racism and sexism she's endured as a Black woman in media, certain it will change the world for the better. But when her letter is met with overwhelming silence, Mickey is sent into a tailspin of self-doubt. Forced to reckon with just how fragile her life is--including the uncertainty of her relationship--she flees to the last place she ever dreamed she would run to, her hometown, desperate for a break from her troubles. Back home, Mickey is seduced by the simplicity of her old life--and the flirtation of a former flame--but her life in New York refuses to be forgotten. When a media scandal catapults Mickey's forgotten letter into the public zeitgeist, suddenly everyone wants to hear what Mickey has to say. It's what she's always wanted--isn't it?
Subjects: Novels.; Lesbian fiction.; Psychological fiction.; African American women; Lesbians; Homecoming; Racism in mass media; Sexism in mass media; Lesbians.; Lesbian fiction.;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 19
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GTFO [videorecording] / by "GTZ", Grace,interviewee.; Alexander, Leigh,1981-interviewee.; Brice, Mattie,interviewee.; Burak, Asi,interviewee.(CARDINAL)415176; Childress, Julia,interviewee.; Friedhoff, Jane,interviewee.; Hammer, Jessica,interviewee.; Haniver, Jenny,interviewee.; Harper, Toff,interviewee.; Harrison, Robert,interviewee.(CARDINAL)669053; Hepler, Jennifer Brandes,interviewee.; Hunicke, Robin,interviewee.; Kirkwood, Ephraim,editor.; Klepek, Patrick,interviewee.; Lappin, Andrew,composer (expression).; Myers, Maddy,interviewee.; Nadeau, Daniel,interviewee.; Padron, Arianna,interviewee.; Pakozdi, Miranda,interviewee.; Park, Ian,editor;film producer.; Pratchett, Rhianna,interviewee.(CARDINAL)493394; Romero, Brenda,interviewee.; Saito, Naoko,artist.; Sarkeesian, Anita,interviewee.(CARDINAL)803788; Stanton, Courtney,interviewee.; Sun-Higginson, Shannon,film producer ;film director.; Wu, Brianna,interviewee.; Yao, Flo,interviewee.;
Post production, Ian Park ; editors, Ephraim Kirkwood, Ian Park ; graphic artist, Naoko Saito ; music, Andrew Lappin ; funded by Kickstarter.Featuring: Leigh Alexander, Mattie Brice, Asi Burak, Julia Childress, Jane Friedhoff, Grace "GTZ", Jessica Hammer, Jenny Haniver, Toff Harper, Robert Harrison, Jennifer Hepler, Robin Hunicke, Patrick Klepek, Maddy Myers, Daniel Nadeau, Arianna Padron, Miranda Pakozdi, Rhianna Pratchett, Brenda Romero, Anita Sarkeesian, Courtney Stanton, Brianna Wu, Flo Yao."Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny"--Container.DVD; NTSC; region 1; 2.8 stereo; Aspect ratio, 1.78:1, 16x9 presentation.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Electronic games industry.; Marginality, Social.; Misogyny.; Sex discrimination against women.; Sexism in language.; Sexism in mass media.; Video gamers.; Video games industry.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages / by Chocano, Carina,author.(CARDINAL)349840;
part 1. Down the rabbit hole. Bunnies ; Can this marriage be saved? ; The bronze statue of the virgin slut ice queen bitch goddess ; What a feeling ; The eternal allure of the basket case -- part 2. The pool of tears. The ingenue chooses marriage or death ; Thoroughly modern Lily ; Bad girlfriend ; The kick-ass -- part 3. You wouldn't have come here. Surreal housewives ; Real girls ; Celebrity Gothic ; Big mouth strikes again ; The redemptive journey ; A modest proposal for more backstabbing in preschool -- part 4. A mad tea party. Let it go ; All the bad guys are girls ; Girls love math ; Train wreck ; Look at yourself ; Phantombusters, or, I want a feminist dance number."Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed-up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, Flashdance to Frozen, the progressive '70s through the backlash '80s, the glib '90s, and the pornified aughts--and at stops in between--she explains how growing up in the shadow of "the girl" taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. In the tradition of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more fluid than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen."--Page 4 of cover.Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-275).
Subjects: Essays.; Women; Women; Women in mass media.; Women in popular culture.; Sex role.; Sexism.; Women.; Womyn.; Gender roles.; Sexism.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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NSFW / by Kaplan, Isabel,author.;
"From the outside, the unnamed protagonist in NSFW appears the vision of success. She has landed an entry-level position at a leading TV network that thousands of college grads would kill for. And sure, she has much to learn. The daughter of a prominent feminist attorney, she grew up outside the industry, better versed in gender dynamics than box office hits. But she's resourceful and hardworking. What could go wrong? At first, the high adrenaline work environment motivates her, yet as she climbs the ranks, she confronts the reality of creating change from the inside. Her points only get attention when echoed by male colleagues. She hears whispers of abuse and sexual misconduct. Her mother says to keep her head down until she's the one in charge a scenario that seems idealistic at best, morally questionable at worst. When her personal and professional lives collide, threatening both the network and her future, she must finally decide what to protect: the career she's given everything for or the empowered woman she claims to be."--Dust flap.
Subjects: Fiction.; Young women; Television broadcasting; Success; Women in television broadcasting; Sexism in mass media;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The destruction of Hillary Clinton / by Bordo, Susan,1947-author.(CARDINAL)756729;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-233) and index.Timeline of Key Events -- 1. Dilemmas of the Female Politician -- 2. The "Woman Card" Moves to the Bottom of the Deck -- 3. Bernie Sanders and the "Millennials" -- 4. "Untrustworthy Hillary" -- 5. Damned Emails -- 6. A Tale of Two Conventions, and One Hot Mic -- 7. Coup d'Etat -- Epilogue."A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo. The Destruction of Hillary Clintonis an answer to the question we've all been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate--whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's--come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentlesspolitician? In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year, Susan Bordo unpacks the right-wing assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way the left provoked the suspicion and indifference of a younger generation, and the unprecedented influenceof the media. Urgent, insightful, and engrossing,The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an essential guide to understanding the most controversial presidential election in American history"--
Subjects: Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Women presidential candidates; Presidential candidates; Presidents; Women; Right and left (Political science); Sexism in political culture; Mass media; Public opinion; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Enlightened sexism : the seductive message that feminism's work is done / by Douglas, Susan J.(Susan Jeanne),1950-(CARDINAL)192891;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-334) and index.Get the girls -- Castration anxiety -- Warrior women in thongs -- The new girliness -- You go girl -- Sex "R" us -- Reality bites -- Lean girls-mean girls -- Red carpet mania -- Women on top--sort of.
Subjects: Feminism; Mass media and women; Women in popular culture; Feminism.; Women's movement.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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American girls [sound recording] : social media and the secret lives of teenagers / by Sales, Nancy Jo,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)609674; Plummer, Thérèse,narrator.(CARDINAL)341282;
Read by Therese Plummer; introduction and conclusion read by the author.With extraordinary intimacy and precision, Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today. From Montclair to Manhattan and Los Angeles, from Florida and Arizona to Texas and Kentucky, Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence--one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl's first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. What does it mean to be a girl in America in 2016? It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. From beauty gurus to slut-shaming to a disconcerting trend of exhibitionism, Nancy Jo Sales provides a shocking window into the troubling world of today's teenage girls.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Teenage girls; Mass media and teenage girls.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Big fiction : how conglomeration changed the publishing industry and American literature / by Sinykin, Dan,author.(CARDINAL)879930;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Mass Market (I): How Mass-Market Books Changed Publishing -- Mass Market (II): How the Mass Market Won the World, Lost Its Soul -- Then Lost the World -- Trade (I): How Women Resisted Sexism and Reinvented the Novel -- Trade (II): How Literary Writers Embraced Genre -- Nonprofit: How Rebels Found Funding and Rejected New York -- Independent: How W.W. Norton Stayed Free and Housed the Misfits."In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with authors like Ralph Ellison while pouring drinks in his office. By the late 1960s, he was poring over profit-and-loss statements. What happened? Beginning in 1965 after RCA bought Random House and then with subsequent purchases of publishing companies by multinational conglomerates, the business of publishing started to change. With more of an emphasis on rationalization, many publishers began to focus on genre and brand name authors. However, amidst a changing marketplace, other publishers found new avenues and possibilities to publish literary and experimental fiction. In Big Fiction, Dan Sinykin examines how changes in the publishing industry affected fiction and literary form. Beginning with RCA's purchase of Random House in 1965 to the invention of the Amazon Kindle in 2007, Sinkyin reveals how power situated in multinational media conglomerates and disseminated through the book publishing industry has influenced what kind of fiction and authors get published. In considering how publishers pursued profits and prestige, Sinykin examines four different sectors of the industry: mass market books and the rise of superstar authors such as Danielle Steel; the changing focus of Random House as a trade publisher; the rise of nonprofits such as Graywolf; and the employee-owned Norton. He also considers how women and writers of color navigated shifts in the publishing industry and allegorized their experiences in their fiction"--
Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Publishers and publishing; Publishers and publishing; American fiction; American fiction; Authors and publishers; Books and reading;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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