Screening Gender on Children's Television

This book offers readers insights into the transformations taking place in the presentation of gender portrayals in television productions aimed at younger audiences.

@contents: Selected Contents: List of figures Acknowledgements The Journey: A Preface Chapter 1. Gender representations and their socializing role: What do we already know? Chapter 2. Studying producers of quality television around the globe: Methodological issues Chapter 3. What does gender mean? Understanding gender in cultural context Chapter 4. The big no-no: Sex and sexualities Chapter 5. The segregated workplace and the implied audience Chapter 6. Gender representations in children's television: Eight working principles for change Chapter 7. Beyond the principles: Concluding notes on changing gender representations References Annotated program and film index Author index Topic index