| dc.contributor.advisor | Hinnant, Amanda | eng |
| dc.contributor.author | Reynolds, Chelsea | eng |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | eng |
| dc.date.submitted | 2012 Summer | eng |
| dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on July 31, 2013). | eng |
| dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
| dc.description | Thesis advisor: Professor Amanda Hinnant | eng |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
| dc.description | M. A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2012. | eng |
| dc.description | "July 2012" | eng |
| dc.description.abstract | The present research attempted to build upon studies of sex content in popular magazines by analyzing how sex articles portray thematic aspects of sex, sexuality, and sexual health in women's and men's lifestyle and health magazines. The researcher conducted a quantitative content analysis of 134 sex articles presented in 53 individual issues of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Redbook, Esquire, GQ, Maxim, Women's Health, Self, Men's Fitness, and Men's Health. Consistent with previous examinations of popular magazines' sex content, women's and men's health and lifestyle titles gave more attention to entertaining aspects of sex than they did to information about sexual health or human sexuality. Chi-square goodness-of-fit tests suggest there are significant differences in the way the magazines portray sex, sexuality, and sexual health based on the sampled titles' statuses as health or lifestyle magazines and also based on the targeted gender of their readerships. | eng |
| dc.format.extent | vi, 84 pages | eng |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/36775 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
| dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
| dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
| dc.subject | sex content | eng |
| dc.subject | popular magazine | eng |
| dc.subject | audience gender | eng |
| dc.subject | magazine genre | eng |
| dc.title | A content analysis of sex articles in women's and men's lifestyle and health magazines | eng |
| dc.type | Thesis | eng |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Journalism (MU) | eng |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. | eng |
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