Debra L. Merskin (PhD, Syracuse University) is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction (Peter Lang, 2010).

• Contents: The Puritan Sex Ethic – Prelude to Passion – Sexing the Media – Reviving Lolita: Sexualization of Adolescent - Girls in Fashion Advertising – Mirroring Violent Masculinity: Nike’s «Warriors» Campaign – Angels in America: Seeing through Victoria’s Secret – Catty: The Feral Feminine in Media – A Boyfriend to Die for: Edward Cullen as Compensated Psychopath in Twilight – But Where Are the Clothes? The Pornographic Gaze in Mainstream American Magazine Fashion Advertising – Homosexuality and Horror: The Lesbian Vampire Film – Not So Pretty Woman: Prostitution and the John in Media.

Debra L. Merskin (PhD, Syracuse University) is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction (Peter Lang, 2010).

• Contents: The Puritan Sex Ethic – Prelude to Passion – Sexing the Media – Reviving Lolita: Sexualization of Adolescent - Girls in Fashion Advertising – Mirroring Violent Masculinity: Nike’s «Warriors» Campaign – Angels in America: Seeing through Victoria’s Secret – Catty: The Feral Feminine in Media – A Boyfriend to Die for: Edward Cullen as Compensated Psychopath in Twilight – But Where Are the Clothes? The Pornographic Gaze in Mainstream American Magazine Fashion Advertising – Homosexuality and Horror: The Lesbian Vampire Film – Not So Pretty Woman: Prostitution and the John in Media.

Debra L. Merskin (PhD, Syracuse University) is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction (Peter Lang, 2010).

• Contents: The Puritan Sex Ethic – Prelude to Passion – Sexing the Media – Reviving Lolita: Sexualization of Adolescent - Girls in Fashion Advertising – Mirroring Violent Masculinity: Nike’s «Warriors» Campaign – Angels in America: Seeing through Victoria’s Secret – Catty: The Feral Feminine in Media – A Boyfriend to Die for: Edward Cullen as Compensated Psychopath in Twilight – But Where Are the Clothes? The Pornographic Gaze in Mainstream American Magazine Fashion Advertising – Homosexuality and Horror: The Lesbian Vampire Film – Not So Pretty Woman: Prostitution and the John in Media.