Scholarship on Culture
Scholars study culture using multiple approaches and methods. Throughout the website we have spotlighted content and textual analysis. Below we list examples of research using content/textual analysis, and scholarship that uses other approaches to analyzing culture. (See also "Publications" under 1) the Home tab for Maryland scholars' work and 2) the "5 Star Studies" tab).
Scholarship using Content/Textual Analysis:
Adams, Carol J. 2000. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. Tenth Anniversary ed. New York: Continuum.
Adkins Covert, Tawnya J. 2012. Manipulating Images: World War II Mobilization of Women through Magazine Advertising. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books.
Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Sheera Joy Olasky, and James E. Stobaugh. 2009. “All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why SMO Families Appeared in the ‘New York Times’ in the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review 74:636-56.
Andrews, Kenneth, and Neal Caren. 2010. “Making the News : Movement Organizations, Media Attention, and the Public Agenda.” American Sociological Review 75:841-66.
Atkinson, Maxine P., and Stephen P. Blackwelder. 1993. “Fathering in the 20th Century.” Journal of Marriage and Family 55:975-86.
Bail, Christopher A. 2012. “The Fringe Effect Civil Society Organizations and the Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since the September 11th Attacks.” American Sociological Review 77:855-79.
Baumann, Shyon and Kim de Laat. 2012. "Socially Defunct: A Comparative Analysis of the Underrepresentation of Older Women in Advertising." Poetics 40:514-41.
Benediktsson, Mike Owen. 2010. “The Deviant Organization and the Bad Apple CEO: Ideology and Accountability in Media Coverage of Corporate Scandals.” Social Forces 88:2189-2216.
Benson, Rodney, and Abigail C. Saguy. 2005. “Constructing Social Problems in an Age of Globalization: A French-American Comparison.” American Sociological Review 70:233-59.
Bernhardsson, Josefin & Alexandra Bogren. 2012. "Drink Sluts, Brats and Immigrants as Others: An Analysis of Swedish Media Discourse on Gender, Alcohol and Rape." Feminist Media Studies 12:1-16.
Best, Rachel. 2010. "Situation or Social Problem: The Influence of Events on Media Coverage of Homelessness." Social Problems 51:74-91.
Binder, Amy. 1993. “Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music.” American Sociological Review 58:753-67.
Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S., Robert L. Kaufman, Ruth D. Peterson, and Michael D. Slater. 2010. "Race and Ethnic Representations of Lawbreakers and Victims in Crime News: A National Study of Television Coverage." Social Problems 57:269-93.
Bobbitt-Zeher, Donna. 2011. “Gender Discrimination at Work: Connecting Gender Stereotypes, Institutional Policies, and Gender Composition of Workplace.” Gender & Society 25:764-86.
Bruin, Marjan De, and Karen Ross, Eds. 2004. Gender And Newsroom Cultures: Identities At Work. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Bullock, Cathy Ferrand. 2010. “Framing Domestic Violence Fatalities: Coverage by Utah Newspapers.” Women’s Studies in Communication 30:34-63.
Byerly, Carolyn M., and Karen Ross. 2006. Women and Media: A Critical Introduction. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Carpenter, Laura M. 1998. "From Girls Into Women: Scripts for Sexuality and Romance in Seventeen Magazine, 1974-1994." The Journal of Sex Research 35:158-68.
Carpenter, Laura M. 2001. "The First Time/Das Erstes Mal: Approaches to Sexuality in U.S. and German Teen Magazines." Youth & Society 32:31-61.
Carter, Cynthia, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan, Eds. 1998. News, Gender and Power. New York: Routledge.
Chambers, Deborah, Linda Steiner, and Carole Fleming. 2004. Women and Journalism. New York: Routledge.
Collins, Patricia A., Julia Abelson, Heather Pyman, and John N. Lavis. 2006. "Are We Expecting Too Much from Print Media? An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the 2002 Canadian Healthcare Reform Debate." Social Science & Medicine 63:89-102.
Davis, Nancy J., and Robert V. Robinson. 2009. “Overcoming Movement Obstacles by the Religiously Orthodox: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 114:130-249.
DeSoucey, Michaela. 2010. “Gastronationalism: Food Traditions and Authenticity Politics in the European Union.” American Sociological Review 75:432-55.
Durfee, Alesha. 2011. “‘I’m Not a Victim, She’s an Abuser’: Masculinity, Victimization, and Protection Orders.” Gender & Society 25:316-34.
Franzosi, Roberto, Ed. 1990. From Advertising to Violence: Extending the Range of Applications. London: SAGE Publications.
Frye, Margaret. 2012. “Bright Futures in Malawi’s New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity.” American Journal of Sociology 117:1565-1624.
Ghaziani, Amin, and Delia Baldassarri. 2011. “Cultural Anchors and the Organization of Differences: A Multi-method Analysis of LGBT Marches on Washington.” American Sociological Review 76:179-206.
Gibson, David R. 2011. “Avoiding Catastrophe: The Interactional Production of Possibility during the Cuban Missile Crisis.” American Journal of Sociology 117:361-419.
Gill, Rosalind. 2007. Gender and the Media. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Hochschild, Arlie R. and Kazuko Tanaka. 2003. "Light and Heavy: American and Japanese Advice Books for Women." Pp. 58-72 in The Commercialization of Intimate Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hsu, Greta, Michael T. Hannan, and Özgecan Koçak. 2009. “Multiple Category Memberships in Markets: An Integrative Theory and Two Empirical Tests.” American Sociological Review 74:150-69.
Hughey, Matthew W. 2010. “The White Savior Film and Reviewers’ Reception.” Symbolic Interaction 33:475-96.
Ignatow, Gabriel. 2009. “Culture and Embodied Cognition: Moral Discourses in Internet Support Groups for Overeaters.” Social Forces 88:643-89.
Jaffe, Alexandra. 1999. “Packaged Sentiments The Social Meanings of Greeting Cards.” Journal of Material Culture 4:115-41.
Johnston, Deirdre D. and Debra H. Swanson. 2003. "Invisible Mothers: A Content Analysis of Motherhood Ideologies and Myths in Magazines." Sex Roles 49:21-33.
Johnston, Josee and Shyon Baumann. 2007. "Democracy versus Distinction: A Study of Omnivorousness in Gourmet Food Writing." American Journal of Sociology 113:165-204.
Kelly, Maura. 2009. “Virginity Loss Narratives in ‘Teen Drama’ Television Programs.” Journal of Sex Research 46:1-11.
Kimport, Katrina. 2012. “Remaking the White Wedding? Same-Sex Photographs’ Challenge to Symbolic Heteronormativity.” Gender & Society 26:874-99.
Kuperberg, Arielle, and Pamela Stone. 2008. “The Media Depiction of Women Who Opt Out.” Gender & Society 22: 497-517.
Lamb, Sharon Keon. 1995. “Blaming the Perpetrator : Language that Distorts Reality in Newspaper Articles on Men Battering Women". Psychology of Women Quarterly 19:209-20.
LaRossa, Ralph, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G. Robert Wynn. 2000. "The Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis," Journal of Marriage and the Family 62:375-87.
LaRossa, Ralph, and Donald C. Reitzes. 1993. "Continuity and Change in Middle Class Fatherhood, 1925-1939: The Culture-Conduct Connection." Journal of Marriage and the Family 55:455-68.
Linneman, Thomas J. 2013. “Gender in Jeopardy! Intonation Variation on a Television Game Show.” Gender & Society 27:82-105.
Lynch, Karen Danna. 2005. "Advertising Motherhood: Image, Ideology, and Consumption." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 49:32-57.
Martel, Martin U. 1968. "Age-Sex Roles in American Magazine Fiction (1890-1955)." Pp. 47-57 in Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology, edited by Bernice L. Neugarten. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Martin, Andrew W., John D. McCarthy, and Clark McPhail. 2009. “Why Targets Matter: Toward a More Inclusive Model of Collective Violence.” American Sociological Review 74:821-41.
Martin, Karin A., and Emily Kazyak. 2009. “Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films.” Gender & Society 23:315-36.
McCabe, Janice. 2005. "Who are the Experts? Medicalization in Teen Magazine Advice Columns." Sociological Studies of Children and Youth 11:153-91.
McCabe, Janice, Emily Fairchild, Liz Grauerholz, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and Daniel Tope. 2011. “Gender in Twentieth-Century Children’s Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters.” Gender & Society 25:197-226.
Miller, Diana. 2011. “Masculinity in Popular Sitcoms, 1955-1960 and 2000-2005.” Culture, Society and Masculinities 3:141-59.
Miller, Leslie J. 2000. "The Poverty of Truth-seeking: Postmodernism, Discourse Analysis and Critical Feminism." Theory and Psychology 10:313-52.
Moss, Mark. 2012. The Media and the Models of Masculinity. United Kingdom: Lexington Books.
Norris, Pippa, Ed. 1997. Politics and the Press: The News Media and Their Influences. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Norris, Pippa, Ed. 1996. Women, Media and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Parasecoli, Fabio. 2005. “Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men’s Fitness Magazines.” Food and Foodways: History and Culture of Human Nourishment 13:17-37.
Paulson, Erika L., and Thomas C. O’Guinn. 2012. “Working-Class Cast: Images of the Working Class in Advertising, 1950-2010.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 644:50-69.
Poindexter, Paula, Sharon Meraz, and Amy Schmitz Weiss. 2007. Women, Men and News: Divided and Disconnected in the News Media Landscape. New York: Routledge.
Pugh, Allison. 2005. "Selling Compromise: Toys, Motherhood, and the Cultural Deal." Gender & Society 19:729-49.
Rogers, Richard A. 2008. “Beasts, Burgers, and Hummers: Meat and the Crisis of Masculinity in Contemporary Television Advertisements.” Environmental Communication 2:281-301.
Ross, Karen. 2012. The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ross, Karen. 2009. Gendered Media: Women, Men, and Identity Politics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Ross, Karen, and Carolyn M. Byerly, Eds. 2004. Women and Media: International Perspectives. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Rutherford, Markela B. 2009. "Children's Autonomy and Responsibility: An Analysis of Childrearing Advice." Qualitative Sociology 32:337-53.
Saguy, Abigail C. 2006. “French Women Don’t Get Fat? French News Reporting on Obesity.” Health at Every Size Journal 19:219-34.
Saguy, Abigail C. 2002. “Sexual Harassment in the News: The United States and France.” Communication Review 5:109-41.
Saguy, Abigail C., and Kjerstin Gruys. 2010. “Morality and Health: News Media Constructions of Overweight and Eating Disorders.” Social Problems 57:231-50.
Saguy, Abigail C., Kjerstin Gruys, and Shanna Gong. 2010. “Social Problem Construction and National Context: News Reporting on ‘Overweight’ and ‘Obesity’ in the United States and France.” Social Problems 57:586-610.
Saguy, Abigail C., and Kevin W. Riley. 2005. “Weighing Both Sides: Morality, Mortality, and Framing Contests over Obesity.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 30:869-923.
Schmutz, Vaughn, and Alison Faupel. 2010. “Gender and Cultural Consecration in Popular Music.” Social Forces 89:685-707.
Simko, Christina. 2012. “Rhetorics of Suffering: September 11 Commemorations as Theodicy.” American Sociological Review 77:880-902.
Skalli, Loubna H. 2011. “Constructing Arab Female Leadership: Lessons from the Moroccan Media.” Gender & Society 25:473-95.
Stibbe, Arran. 2004. “Health and the Social Construction of Masculinity in Men’s Health Magazine.” Men and Masculinities 7:31-51.
Swenson, Rebecca. 2009. “Domestic Divo? Televised Treatments of Masculinity, Femininity, and Food.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 26:36-53.
Tavory, Iddo, and Ann Swidler. 2009.“Condom Semiotics: Meaning and Condom Use in Rural Malawi.” American Sociological Review 74:171-89.
Terkildsen, Nayda, and Frauke Schnell. 1997. “How Media Frames Move Public Opinion: An Analysis of the Women’s Movement.” Political Research Quarterly 50:879-900.
Usdansky, Margaret L. 2009. "A Weak Embrace: Popular and Scholarly Depictions of Single-Parent Families 1900-1998." Journal of Marriage and Family 71:209-225.
Valkenburg, Patti M., Holli A. Semetko, and Claes H. De Vreese. 1999. “The Effects of News Frames on Readers’ Thoughts and Recall.” Communication Research 26:550-69.
Vavrus, Mary Douglas. 2002. Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture. State University of New York Press.
Wade, Lisa. 2009. “Defining Gendered Oppression in U.S. Newspapers The Strategic Value of ‘Female Genital Mutilation’.” Gender & Society 23:293-314.
West, Emily. 2009. “Doing Gender Difference Through Greeting Cards.” Feminist Media Studies 9:285-99.
Willer, Lynda R. 2001. “Warning: Welcome to Your World Baby, Gender Message Enclosed. An Analysis of Gender Messages in Birth Congratulation Cards.” Women and Language 24:16-23.
* Click here for a bibliography of some 1990s content analysis articles from the communications literature and related fields.
Adkins Covert, Tawnya J. 2012. Manipulating Images: World War II Mobilization of Women through Magazine Advertising. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books.
Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Sheera Joy Olasky, and James E. Stobaugh. 2009. “All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why SMO Families Appeared in the ‘New York Times’ in the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review 74:636-56.
Andrews, Kenneth, and Neal Caren. 2010. “Making the News : Movement Organizations, Media Attention, and the Public Agenda.” American Sociological Review 75:841-66.
Atkinson, Maxine P., and Stephen P. Blackwelder. 1993. “Fathering in the 20th Century.” Journal of Marriage and Family 55:975-86.
Bail, Christopher A. 2012. “The Fringe Effect Civil Society Organizations and the Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since the September 11th Attacks.” American Sociological Review 77:855-79.
Baumann, Shyon and Kim de Laat. 2012. "Socially Defunct: A Comparative Analysis of the Underrepresentation of Older Women in Advertising." Poetics 40:514-41.
Benediktsson, Mike Owen. 2010. “The Deviant Organization and the Bad Apple CEO: Ideology and Accountability in Media Coverage of Corporate Scandals.” Social Forces 88:2189-2216.
Benson, Rodney, and Abigail C. Saguy. 2005. “Constructing Social Problems in an Age of Globalization: A French-American Comparison.” American Sociological Review 70:233-59.
Bernhardsson, Josefin & Alexandra Bogren. 2012. "Drink Sluts, Brats and Immigrants as Others: An Analysis of Swedish Media Discourse on Gender, Alcohol and Rape." Feminist Media Studies 12:1-16.
Best, Rachel. 2010. "Situation or Social Problem: The Influence of Events on Media Coverage of Homelessness." Social Problems 51:74-91.
Binder, Amy. 1993. “Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music.” American Sociological Review 58:753-67.
Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S., Robert L. Kaufman, Ruth D. Peterson, and Michael D. Slater. 2010. "Race and Ethnic Representations of Lawbreakers and Victims in Crime News: A National Study of Television Coverage." Social Problems 57:269-93.
Bobbitt-Zeher, Donna. 2011. “Gender Discrimination at Work: Connecting Gender Stereotypes, Institutional Policies, and Gender Composition of Workplace.” Gender & Society 25:764-86.
Bruin, Marjan De, and Karen Ross, Eds. 2004. Gender And Newsroom Cultures: Identities At Work. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Bullock, Cathy Ferrand. 2010. “Framing Domestic Violence Fatalities: Coverage by Utah Newspapers.” Women’s Studies in Communication 30:34-63.
Byerly, Carolyn M., and Karen Ross. 2006. Women and Media: A Critical Introduction. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Carpenter, Laura M. 1998. "From Girls Into Women: Scripts for Sexuality and Romance in Seventeen Magazine, 1974-1994." The Journal of Sex Research 35:158-68.
Carpenter, Laura M. 2001. "The First Time/Das Erstes Mal: Approaches to Sexuality in U.S. and German Teen Magazines." Youth & Society 32:31-61.
Carter, Cynthia, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan, Eds. 1998. News, Gender and Power. New York: Routledge.
Chambers, Deborah, Linda Steiner, and Carole Fleming. 2004. Women and Journalism. New York: Routledge.
Collins, Patricia A., Julia Abelson, Heather Pyman, and John N. Lavis. 2006. "Are We Expecting Too Much from Print Media? An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the 2002 Canadian Healthcare Reform Debate." Social Science & Medicine 63:89-102.
Davis, Nancy J., and Robert V. Robinson. 2009. “Overcoming Movement Obstacles by the Religiously Orthodox: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 114:130-249.
DeSoucey, Michaela. 2010. “Gastronationalism: Food Traditions and Authenticity Politics in the European Union.” American Sociological Review 75:432-55.
Durfee, Alesha. 2011. “‘I’m Not a Victim, She’s an Abuser’: Masculinity, Victimization, and Protection Orders.” Gender & Society 25:316-34.
Franzosi, Roberto, Ed. 1990. From Advertising to Violence: Extending the Range of Applications. London: SAGE Publications.
Frye, Margaret. 2012. “Bright Futures in Malawi’s New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity.” American Journal of Sociology 117:1565-1624.
Ghaziani, Amin, and Delia Baldassarri. 2011. “Cultural Anchors and the Organization of Differences: A Multi-method Analysis of LGBT Marches on Washington.” American Sociological Review 76:179-206.
Gibson, David R. 2011. “Avoiding Catastrophe: The Interactional Production of Possibility during the Cuban Missile Crisis.” American Journal of Sociology 117:361-419.
Gill, Rosalind. 2007. Gender and the Media. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Hochschild, Arlie R. and Kazuko Tanaka. 2003. "Light and Heavy: American and Japanese Advice Books for Women." Pp. 58-72 in The Commercialization of Intimate Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hsu, Greta, Michael T. Hannan, and Özgecan Koçak. 2009. “Multiple Category Memberships in Markets: An Integrative Theory and Two Empirical Tests.” American Sociological Review 74:150-69.
Hughey, Matthew W. 2010. “The White Savior Film and Reviewers’ Reception.” Symbolic Interaction 33:475-96.
Ignatow, Gabriel. 2009. “Culture and Embodied Cognition: Moral Discourses in Internet Support Groups for Overeaters.” Social Forces 88:643-89.
Jaffe, Alexandra. 1999. “Packaged Sentiments The Social Meanings of Greeting Cards.” Journal of Material Culture 4:115-41.
Johnston, Deirdre D. and Debra H. Swanson. 2003. "Invisible Mothers: A Content Analysis of Motherhood Ideologies and Myths in Magazines." Sex Roles 49:21-33.
Johnston, Josee and Shyon Baumann. 2007. "Democracy versus Distinction: A Study of Omnivorousness in Gourmet Food Writing." American Journal of Sociology 113:165-204.
Kelly, Maura. 2009. “Virginity Loss Narratives in ‘Teen Drama’ Television Programs.” Journal of Sex Research 46:1-11.
Kimport, Katrina. 2012. “Remaking the White Wedding? Same-Sex Photographs’ Challenge to Symbolic Heteronormativity.” Gender & Society 26:874-99.
Kuperberg, Arielle, and Pamela Stone. 2008. “The Media Depiction of Women Who Opt Out.” Gender & Society 22: 497-517.
Lamb, Sharon Keon. 1995. “Blaming the Perpetrator : Language that Distorts Reality in Newspaper Articles on Men Battering Women". Psychology of Women Quarterly 19:209-20.
LaRossa, Ralph, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G. Robert Wynn. 2000. "The Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis," Journal of Marriage and the Family 62:375-87.
LaRossa, Ralph, and Donald C. Reitzes. 1993. "Continuity and Change in Middle Class Fatherhood, 1925-1939: The Culture-Conduct Connection." Journal of Marriage and the Family 55:455-68.
Linneman, Thomas J. 2013. “Gender in Jeopardy! Intonation Variation on a Television Game Show.” Gender & Society 27:82-105.
Lynch, Karen Danna. 2005. "Advertising Motherhood: Image, Ideology, and Consumption." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 49:32-57.
Martel, Martin U. 1968. "Age-Sex Roles in American Magazine Fiction (1890-1955)." Pp. 47-57 in Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology, edited by Bernice L. Neugarten. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Martin, Andrew W., John D. McCarthy, and Clark McPhail. 2009. “Why Targets Matter: Toward a More Inclusive Model of Collective Violence.” American Sociological Review 74:821-41.
Martin, Karin A., and Emily Kazyak. 2009. “Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films.” Gender & Society 23:315-36.
McCabe, Janice. 2005. "Who are the Experts? Medicalization in Teen Magazine Advice Columns." Sociological Studies of Children and Youth 11:153-91.
McCabe, Janice, Emily Fairchild, Liz Grauerholz, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and Daniel Tope. 2011. “Gender in Twentieth-Century Children’s Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters.” Gender & Society 25:197-226.
Miller, Diana. 2011. “Masculinity in Popular Sitcoms, 1955-1960 and 2000-2005.” Culture, Society and Masculinities 3:141-59.
Miller, Leslie J. 2000. "The Poverty of Truth-seeking: Postmodernism, Discourse Analysis and Critical Feminism." Theory and Psychology 10:313-52.
Moss, Mark. 2012. The Media and the Models of Masculinity. United Kingdom: Lexington Books.
Norris, Pippa, Ed. 1997. Politics and the Press: The News Media and Their Influences. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Norris, Pippa, Ed. 1996. Women, Media and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Parasecoli, Fabio. 2005. “Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men’s Fitness Magazines.” Food and Foodways: History and Culture of Human Nourishment 13:17-37.
Paulson, Erika L., and Thomas C. O’Guinn. 2012. “Working-Class Cast: Images of the Working Class in Advertising, 1950-2010.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 644:50-69.
Poindexter, Paula, Sharon Meraz, and Amy Schmitz Weiss. 2007. Women, Men and News: Divided and Disconnected in the News Media Landscape. New York: Routledge.
Pugh, Allison. 2005. "Selling Compromise: Toys, Motherhood, and the Cultural Deal." Gender & Society 19:729-49.
Rogers, Richard A. 2008. “Beasts, Burgers, and Hummers: Meat and the Crisis of Masculinity in Contemporary Television Advertisements.” Environmental Communication 2:281-301.
Ross, Karen. 2012. The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ross, Karen. 2009. Gendered Media: Women, Men, and Identity Politics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Ross, Karen, and Carolyn M. Byerly, Eds. 2004. Women and Media: International Perspectives. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Rutherford, Markela B. 2009. "Children's Autonomy and Responsibility: An Analysis of Childrearing Advice." Qualitative Sociology 32:337-53.
Saguy, Abigail C. 2006. “French Women Don’t Get Fat? French News Reporting on Obesity.” Health at Every Size Journal 19:219-34.
Saguy, Abigail C. 2002. “Sexual Harassment in the News: The United States and France.” Communication Review 5:109-41.
Saguy, Abigail C., and Kjerstin Gruys. 2010. “Morality and Health: News Media Constructions of Overweight and Eating Disorders.” Social Problems 57:231-50.
Saguy, Abigail C., Kjerstin Gruys, and Shanna Gong. 2010. “Social Problem Construction and National Context: News Reporting on ‘Overweight’ and ‘Obesity’ in the United States and France.” Social Problems 57:586-610.
Saguy, Abigail C., and Kevin W. Riley. 2005. “Weighing Both Sides: Morality, Mortality, and Framing Contests over Obesity.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 30:869-923.
Schmutz, Vaughn, and Alison Faupel. 2010. “Gender and Cultural Consecration in Popular Music.” Social Forces 89:685-707.
Simko, Christina. 2012. “Rhetorics of Suffering: September 11 Commemorations as Theodicy.” American Sociological Review 77:880-902.
Skalli, Loubna H. 2011. “Constructing Arab Female Leadership: Lessons from the Moroccan Media.” Gender & Society 25:473-95.
Stibbe, Arran. 2004. “Health and the Social Construction of Masculinity in Men’s Health Magazine.” Men and Masculinities 7:31-51.
Swenson, Rebecca. 2009. “Domestic Divo? Televised Treatments of Masculinity, Femininity, and Food.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 26:36-53.
Tavory, Iddo, and Ann Swidler. 2009.“Condom Semiotics: Meaning and Condom Use in Rural Malawi.” American Sociological Review 74:171-89.
Terkildsen, Nayda, and Frauke Schnell. 1997. “How Media Frames Move Public Opinion: An Analysis of the Women’s Movement.” Political Research Quarterly 50:879-900.
Usdansky, Margaret L. 2009. "A Weak Embrace: Popular and Scholarly Depictions of Single-Parent Families 1900-1998." Journal of Marriage and Family 71:209-225.
Valkenburg, Patti M., Holli A. Semetko, and Claes H. De Vreese. 1999. “The Effects of News Frames on Readers’ Thoughts and Recall.” Communication Research 26:550-69.
Vavrus, Mary Douglas. 2002. Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture. State University of New York Press.
Wade, Lisa. 2009. “Defining Gendered Oppression in U.S. Newspapers The Strategic Value of ‘Female Genital Mutilation’.” Gender & Society 23:293-314.
West, Emily. 2009. “Doing Gender Difference Through Greeting Cards.” Feminist Media Studies 9:285-99.
Willer, Lynda R. 2001. “Warning: Welcome to Your World Baby, Gender Message Enclosed. An Analysis of Gender Messages in Birth Congratulation Cards.” Women and Language 24:16-23.
* Click here for a bibliography of some 1990s content analysis articles from the communications literature and related fields.
Using Other Methods and Approaches:
Blair-Loy, Mary. 2003. Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Carey, Victor, Chapman, Simon, Gaffney, Daniel. 1994. “Children’s Lives or Garden Aesthetics? A Case Study in Public Health Advocacy.” AZPH Australian Journal of Public Health 18:25-32.
Choi, Susanne Y. P. 2011. “State Control, Female Prostitution and HIV Prevention in China.” The China Quarterly 205:96-114.
Elliott, Sinikka, Rachel Powell and Joslyn Brenton. 2013. “Being a Good Mom: Low-Income, Black Single Mothers Negotiate Intensive Mothering.” Journal of Family Issues. Online first.
Ferguson, Christopher J. 2013. “In the Eye of the Beholder: Thin-ideal Media Affects Some, but Not Most, Viewers in a Meta-analytic Review of Body Dissatisfaction in Women and Men.” Psychology of Popular Media Culture 2:20-37.
Gimlin, Debra L. 2013. “‘Too Good to Be Real’ The Obviously Augmented Breast in Women’s Narratives of Cosmetic Surgery.” Gender & Society 27:913-34.
Hays, Sharon. 1996. The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Hughey, Matthew. 2012. White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
LaRossa, Ralph. 2012. "The Historical Study of Fatherhood: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations." Pp. 37-58. Fatherhood in Late Modernity: Cultural Images, Social Practices, Structural Frames, edited by Mechtild Oechsle, Ursula Muller and Sabine Hess. Leverkusen, Germany: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
LaRossa, Ralph. 2009. "Single-Parent Family Discourse in Popular Magazines and Social Science Journals." Journal of Marriage and Family 71:235-39.
May, Reuben A. Buford. 2014. Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
McCormack, Karen. 20005. “Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women’s Resistance.” Gender & Society 19:660-79.
Press, Andrea L. 1991. Women Watching Television: Gender, Class and Generation in the American Television Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Steinberg, Laurence, and Kathryn C. Monahan. 2011. "Adolescents' Exposure to Sexy Media Does Not Hasten the Initiation of Sexual Intercourse." Developmental Psychology 47:562-76.
Taylor, Judy, Joséee Johnston and Krista Whitehead. Forthcoming. “A Corporation in Feminist Clothing? Young Women Discuss the Dove “Real Beauty” Campaign.” Critical Sociology.
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Carey, Victor, Chapman, Simon, Gaffney, Daniel. 1994. “Children’s Lives or Garden Aesthetics? A Case Study in Public Health Advocacy.” AZPH Australian Journal of Public Health 18:25-32.
Choi, Susanne Y. P. 2011. “State Control, Female Prostitution and HIV Prevention in China.” The China Quarterly 205:96-114.
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