Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies. Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones' Diary and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and using case studies of the USA and the UK after September 11th, James Curran and David Morley examine central topics including: * media representations of the new woman in contemporary society * the creation of self in lifestyle media * the nature of globalization * the rise of digital actors and media. Ideal as a course reader, with each essay covering a different major area or advance in original research, Media & Cultural Theory is global in its reach. Through its engagement with broad questions, it is an invaluable book that can be applied to the studies of media and cultural studies students the English-speaking world over.

Media and Cultural Theory

This article contributes towards ongoing debates on gender, security and post-conflict studies. Its focus is on the activities of male peace-keepers and their gendered relations with women and girl...

Engendering (In)security in Peace Support Operations

Debate abounds concerning the extent to which post-structuralist theory can be usefully applied to feminist research. This article attempts to draw together and outline the main arguments, and to establish a position which might be built from in the future. The reasons why many feminist educational researchers have been attracted to post-structuralist theory are explored, as are the criticisms of post-structuralism as an inadequate, even androcentric theory, which have been levelled by other feminist researchers. A distinction is suggested between the application of post-structuralist theory to descriptive research, and to emancipatory research. Having explored the emancipatory suppositions of feminism, and the deconstructive elements of post-structuralism, it is argued that 'pure' post-structuralism cannot be used effectively in emancipatory research because of its deconstruction of the truth narratives that constitute such research. It is argued that a new approach is necessary to take research beyond m...

Modernist Reductionism or Post-structuralist Relativism: Can we move on? An Evaluation of the Arguments in Relation to Feminist Educational Research

Theorizing Masculinity With/In the Media

This paper critically interrogates and re-evaluates the notion that it is somehow difficult being a man in nursing and suggests some ways forward which will allow us to gain a more politically astute purchase on gender, nursing and the socio-political context in which the profession operates. Men appear to be well served by a career in nursing. Despite their lesser numbers they are likely to earn more and be promoted into leadership roles more readily. Yet there is a pervasive sense in the literature on men in nursing that they feel unhappy as a minority in a predominantly female occupation and feel a disjuncture between masculine identity and the nursing role. The genealogy of this idea can be traced to a more extensive literature in the 'men's movement', in sex role theory and masculinity studies which has tended to focus on the putative hurts that men suffer as they are socialized into the male role. This is itself informed by experiences and discourses from therapy, and privileges these kinds of experiences over and above more sober consideration of the respective powers of men and women and the sociopolitical context of the profession. This 'poor me' discourse deflects attention away from the business of tackling material inequalities and enables men to encroach further into the agenda of nursing discussions. Instead, a view of men and women in nursing is proposed which is attentive to the historical and political operations of power and which sees subjective experiences as the effects of power rather than as a starting point for analysis. We must place individual experience coherently and exhaustively in the material environment of social space and time. It is in this way that we can genuinely advance the interest of men and women and build an effective profile for the profession as a whole.

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Men in nursing: re-evaluating masculinities, re-evaluating gender.

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