Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers: Gender Representations in Children's TV around the World (Hardcover)

Contents: Maya Gotz/Dafna Lemish: Preface - How It All Began ? Maya Gotz/Dafna Lemish: Introduction ? Maya Gotz/Dafna Lemish: Gender Representations in Children’s Television Worldwide: A Comparative Study of 24 Countries ? Maya Gotz/Margit Herche: ≪Wasp Waists and V-Shape Torso≫. Measuring the Body of the ≪Global≫ Girl and Boy in Animated Children’s Programs ? Jeanne Prinsloo: Seductive Little Girls on Children’s TV: Sexualization and Gender Relations ? Damien Spry: ≪Make Her Skinnier, Make Her Curvier≫: Sexualised Girlhood in Japanese Cartoons ? Maya Gotz/Gunter Neubauer/Reinhard Winter: Heroes, Planners and Funny Losers: Masculinities Represented in Male Characters in Children’s TV ? Elke Schlote: How Diverse Are Superheroines? Ethnically Diverse Girl Characters in Globalized Children’s TV ? Dafna Lemish: ≪Without a Family≫: Representation of Families in Children’s TV around the World ? Kara Chan: Consumerism and Gender in Children’s Television ? Maya Gotz/Margit Herche: ≪What Really Annoys Me about the Way Girls and Boys Are Portrayed in Children’s Television≫. Children from 21 Countries Write Illustrated. Letters to TV Producers.