Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture

by Meg John Barker, Rosalind Gill, Laura Harvey

Book Overview

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down.

The book reveals the intimate operation of power in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509509119
• ISBN13: 9781509509119
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"