Diversity in Gender and Visual Representation

Russell Luyt is Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK. As lecturer, his specialisms include social psychology, qualitative methods, and the psychology of gender. Christina Welch is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, and leads the Masters course in Death, Religion and Culture, at the University of Winchester, UK. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with a research interest in the intersection between religions and material/visual culture. Gender is central to much of her work.Rosemary Lobban is a research student at the University of Greenwich, UK. She has a background in both media and psychology, having studied and worked in both fields. Her specialisms include representations of gender in advertising, as well as masculinities and femininities from a critical, discursive perspective.

• Introduction: Diversity in gender and visual representation 1. Visualising the ‘real’ and the ‘fake’: emotion work and the representation of orgasm in pornography and everyday sexual interactions 2. Death and the erotic woman: the European gendering of mortality in times of major religious change 3. Real and unreal masculinities: the celebrity image in anti-trafficking campaigns 4. Does it pay to break male gender stereotypes in advertising? A comparison of advertisement effectiveness between the United Kingdom, Poland and South Africa 5. Transing the small screen: loving and hating transgender youth in Glee and Degrassi 6. Shaping the online fat acceptance movement: talking about body image and beauty standards 7. Diversity in gender and visual representation: a commentary