Document Type
Book
Publication Date
5-2025
Keywords
intersectionality, media criticism, media analysis, student writing
Abstract
The media analysis essays in this collection are the result of an online graduate course at Stony Brook University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric entitled “Intersectionality and Media.” Drawing upon methods and scholarship based primarily in rhetorical studies, the course aimed to prepare graduate students in a variety of disciplines to write, research, and communicate about issues related to media, identity, and the intersectionality of oppression—especially race, class, gender, and sexuality. How to Sell a Gendered Fantasy analyzes various media artifacts (spanning digital, film and tv, music, and games) and the fantasies about gender that they contain. Gendered fantasies work to allure us, alarm us, confuse us—in general, they occupy our attention, whether one attempts to advocate for gender equality or enforce traditional gender norms. As the intersectional approach of this volume shows, gendered fantasies may be “sold” as a clear, simple, single item, but they are ultimately package deals full of contradictions and complexity.
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Recommended Citation
Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of chapter." In How to Sell a Gendered Fantasy, edited by Matthew Salzano, pp. #–#. Stony Brook Academic Commons, May 2025.
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