'Bibliography: Books'

(1) Media, Gender and Identity By David Gauntlett ( First published in 2002)

I have chose this book, for my Independant Study because it is very useful and has got some excellent reference to other authors that can be handy for me. As my Independant study is based on Race and Gender, this book has got excellent quotes for me that i will be able to use. Page 72 has got useful information how Gender Roles were seen in the past anh they are being percieved today. This will be very handy for me as i will be able to link this back to how both men and women were seen during the old days and how they are seen today. Page 6-9 heavily focuses on the issues about 'Masculinity' and how they are seen, in the 21st century.

(2) Knowing Women Feminism and Knowledge by Helen Crowley and Susan Himmelweit (1992)

This book explores some of the new developments in the Feminist theory, it also refers back to the status of women as both subjects and objects of knowledge. This book is very debative and also talks about womens and gender, and how we percieve them. This book will be very beneficial to me as in my Independant study one of the main ares that i am looking at is gender, and how women are portrayed as being subordiante to men. This book has got sme excellent information aboout, subordination, patruarchy and dominace. Iwill be able to make some excellent reference from this book.

(3) Studying the Media by Tim O' Sullivan, Brian Dutton and Philip Rayner (1998)

This bookk will be helpful to me as I belive that it has got some very handy information about realiam, representation and audience. It has got excellent references to theroirst such as Laura Mulvey and gives in-depth information about women and men. Adding on to this it also has got excellent reference to other useful authors which i can look at for my independant study and make refrence to.

(4) Gender Studies by Anne Cranny- Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos and Joan Kirkby 2003

This is one of my sisters Uni books that i found lying in my room. It has got excellent informaiton of contemporary issues such as sex, Gender, Identity and Race. Also it has got a variety of theorist to this issues which i can relate to my study, and also add some quotes.

(5) Walter, Natasha (1998) The New Feminism, London: Little Brown.

I belive that this book will definately come in use, as whole book will talk about Feminism and how they are seen today,such as being independant and so on. This will be very useful for my study because towards the end of the film the main protagonist Aishwarya becomes independant and stands on her feet, i can get some useful quotes and add them in my study.

(6) Deveaux, Monique (1994) ' Feminism and Empowerment': a crucial reading of Foucault.

The reason for why i have chosen this book is because it also talks about sexuality, and Feminism and my study heavily looks at that. This book has also got some feminist scholars, that talk about how they view feminist to be, so i belive that this book will be worth making reference to.

(7) Farrell, Warren (2001) ' The Myth of Male Power, New York: Penguin'.

This book is very useful indeed. It has got some historical information in the book, such as how men's were preceievd during the old days, and it also heavily looks at male dominace and patriachy with excellent quotations. It focuses on Mens role in detail, which is very handy for me, as 'Provoked' shows this, we see Deepak being a abusive father and husband. I think this book will benefit me alot towards my study.

(8) Gray, John (1993) Men Are From Mars: Women Are From Venus, London: Thorsons.

This book discusses the realationship between husband and wife, and how they both can have a improving relationship. I went for this book because looking back at 'Provoked' we as the audience can clearly see that the relationship between Kiranjeet and Deepak are bad, as he is a very abusive husband and she is very passive towards him, in simple words helpless. I think this book will provide me with excellent information.

(9) Elasmar, Michael ' The Portrayal of Women in US prime time television' (1999)

I went for this book, as i belive that it will help me se how women's have been seen in TV. However it may also not be very handy for me because it might just focus on US and my film for my study is being focused on British Text. Yet i can just get some quotations that might be very useful to me.

(10) Transformations of Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives

This book, look at gender and differet Race, and how they seem to get along with their family, i think this will be very helpful to me as i can make links and also reference towards my study.