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Title: Gender, Politics and Communication by Annabelle Sreberny, Liesbet Van Zoonen ISBN: 1-57273-241-5 Publisher: Hampton Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $72.50

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting But Not Compelling
Comment: Gender, Politics and Communication provides the reader with an intriguing look at the representation of gender in the popular media. This book highlights both American and Dutch culture and society. The political frameworks of both the United States and the Netherlands are introduced and gender roles are explained. Information about the society, culture, and political frameworks of other countries are also featured, however, in a limited fashion. This book is recommended for beginning to intermediate students of gender. Key points are clearly defined and the articles are relatively easy to read. Students searching for possible masters thesis's may find this text valuable. Readers interested in expanding their knowledge on gender and international relations will also find this text valuable. More advanced students of gender may find this book interesting but not compelling. It is recommended that advanced students use the text as a guide to find further, more expansive articles by the authors featured in the book. Sreberny and Zoonen have assembled articles by professors and students in the United States and abroad. Articles by Minna Aslama, Bernadette Barker-Plummer, Sonia Bathla, Mary Ellen Brown, Leonor Camauer, Darlaine C. Gardetto, Cheris Kramarae, Jana Kramer, Andra Leurdijk, Limor Peer, Elayne Rapping, Karen Ross, Annabelle Sreberny, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, and Liesbet van Zoonen are featured. The authors provide a critical examination of gender representations in the popular media from the political debate to the talk show. The book favors articles concerning women, however, writings on masculinity are provided. This book provides the reader with twelve interesting and capable articles that feature topics which deserve further exploration in the larger culture. The political arena, often dominated by male names and images, provides an area to reexamine stereotypical gender roles. Two intriguing articles, Karin Wahl-Johnson's article, Constructed Masculinities in U.S. Presidential Campaigns: The Case of 1992 and Andra Leurdijk's article, "Should I Maybe Perform Striptease?" Gendered Representations of Race Relations and Multicultural Society in American and Dutch Talk Shows, feature interesting ideas and compelling observations. Leurdijk's article proves informative and clever for utilizing The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss and explore the topic. The articles, while interesting, do not provide nor explore any new or profound ideas. Do not expect groundbreaking statements - many of the ideas presented can be found in other well-known texts on gender. This book focuses primarily on women, even though, the ambiguous term, gender, is used in the title. Despite the use of this term, the majority of the book focuses little on the male gender and does not address the idea of a third gender. A more apt title for this set writings would be Women, Politics, and Communication. The book should be utilized if necessary, for a paper or a class on gender, otherwise - it should not be considered "fun" reading entertainment. The best thing about this book is that it combines different cultures and political environments to explore these issues. Gender, Politics and Communication can be seen as a decent book for researching and exploring communication styles in the Netherlands and abroad. The writers are competent and the articles are worth reading. However, the ideas presented are not necessarily compelling. ~ L.P.