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MEDIA Karen Ross, ed., THE HANDBOOK OF GENDER, SEX AND MEDIA. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. (Handbooks in communication and media.) 576p. index. $199.95, ISBN 978-1444338546; e-book, ISBN 978-1118114254.
Writer Allen Ginsberg once famously stated, "Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture." While editor Karen Ross and the forty-plus scholars who contributed to this handbook would agree that media has great influence in our culture, they use the text's nearly 600 pages to explore the ways in which media reflects but absorbs, represents but subverts constructs of gender and sexuality in modern society. It...