Publisher's Synopsis
Are women really the caricatures that movies, television and other mainstream media have made them out to be? Are they really as humorously hyperemotional as your favorite sitcoms might suggest? Or are they really only capable of playing second-string to the supermen that have long dominated the silver screen and the pages of comic books? A Thousand I's: Presenting Women of the 21st Century seeks to explore how the longevity of such archaic stereotypes about women's emotions, behaviors and sexualities have led modern day Americans to embrace such depictions of women as realistic and how mainstream media has worked to further ingrain these beliefs into the psyche of contemporary American culture. A Thousand I's also tries to determine the origins and implications of such stereotypes and whether or not contemporary American media and culture have evolved in their conceptualizations of women two decades into the 21st century.
