Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, Gendered Transformationsoffers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics,rnembodied performance, and social constructions of reality, these essays explore a wide variety of concerns from a similarly wide variety of perspectives, from essentialist to anti-essentialist. A thought-provoking contribution to a number of disparate fields, Gendered Transformationsoffers a rare interdisciplinary approach to gender that reflects the most recent developments in media theory and methodology