Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader

About

Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and womens studies at Wheelock College in Boston where she is also chair of the American studies department. She has been researching and writing about the pornography industry for over twenty years. She has written numerous articles on pornography media images of women and representations of race in pop culture. Her latest book is PORNLAND: How Pornography has Hijacked our Sexuality. She is a cofounder of the activist group Stop Porn Culture! Jean M. Humez is a professor emerita of womens studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she has taught courses in both womens studies and American studies and chaired the womens studies department. She designed and taught an undergraduate women and the media course early in her career and came to collaborate with Gail Dines through her interest in media text analysis. She has also published books and articles on African American womens spiritual and secular autobiographies and on women and gender in Shaker religion. Her most recent book is Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories.