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This episode focuses on representations of masculinity in the media. Interviewees consider what society thinks a man should be and how media can relay or formulate those messages. Host Stephanie Menders, a graduate student in the Media Studies program who hails from Norwich Connecticut and studies masculinity and labor in contemporary television, talks about scholars R.W. Connell and Antonio Gramsci.

Stephanie Menders is a graduate student in the Media Studies program who hails from Norwich Connecticut and studies masculinity and labor in contemporary television.

References:

• Connell, R. W.  University of California Press, 1995.
• Gramsci, Antonio, et al. Prison Notebooks. Columbia University Press, 1992.
• Morgan, Michael, et al. Living with Television Now: Advances in Cultivation Theory & Research. Peter Lang, 2012.

Comments or questions? Email smenders[at]uwm[dot]edu