Book Research

• Macdonald Myra: 1995: Representing Women- Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media- Hodder Arnold (Page 187)

''Media still replay the Madonna/whore dichotomy, and focus in a way untypical of any other crime on the victim or, as support groups now prefer to characterize her, 'the survivor.

• Kimmel, M.S(ed.) 1987: Changing Men: New direction in research on Men and Masculinity. Newbury Park, CA, Beverly Hills, London, New Delhi:Sage(Page 212)

-''If anything, the media act to reinforce already existing attitudes and values regrading women and violence. They do contribute, but are only part of the problem''.

• Lewis Glenn, 1983: Real Men like violence:Australian Men, Media and Violence. Kenhurst:Kangaroo Press (page 11)

-''Within certain limits aggressive male behaviour is accepted as normal part of everyday''.

• Mason, David, (2000) Race and Ethnicity, Modern Britain Publishers (Page 9)

-‘The term racism… is frequently used to express patriotic fervour and straightforward ignorance about other cultures’

• Gauntlett, David (2002) ‘Media, Gender and Identity’ (page 66)

-‘Female roles have definitely become tougher’

• A. Cranny-Francis, P.Stavropoulos, J.Kirkby (2003) Palagrave Macmillan Publishing's :Gender Studies Terms and Debates (page 244)

-‘under a patriarchal regime, women are, by definition, excluded from positions of power and authority’