I have recently appointed Maureen C. McHugh to serve asMedia Review Editor for Sex Roles. The Internet, and themedia more broadly, are a central part of our lives today. Iwas pleased that Maureen was willing to take on thisimportant task. As she explains below, the media have beenof great interest to her for many years. She has someexciting ideas about how we can use this new section.This new section begins with this issue. Under Maureen’snew editorship, the media review included in this issue is areview of the film Straightlaced: How Gender’s Got Us AllTied Up , a Debra Chasnoff documentary (DeRose andComposto 2011).As Dr. McHugh explains:Allow me to introduce myself and the section. I am a socialpsychologist with a commitment to teaching, and strongpersonal interestin popular culture.Havingtaught over 3,000womeninthePsychologyofWomen,thecourseIteachtodayis different in content, topics covered, texts and resourcesused,andinpedagogyfromthePsychologyofWomencoursethat Irene and I team-taught in 1975. When we startedteaching there were no published textbooks and very fewarticles relatingtogenderor towomen’sissues(Unger2010).This also predates the first issues of Sex Roles published in1975 (Frieze and Dittrich 2009). The articles we used inclass were mimeographed in a garage and distributed byKNOW, a division of the National Organization of Women(NOW). (This publisher no longer operates). Now it isdefinitely more difficult to keep up with the texts andresources available. Hopefully the media reviews offeredhere will help all of us keep up.One way to remain current and to engage contemporarystudents in feminist psychology is to use media and popularcultureintheclassroom.WehopethattheMediaSectionofSexRoles can contribute to teaching gender topics or courses atvarious levels, i.e. high school, college or graduate levelclasses. We are especially interested in receiving reviews ofDVDs and documentaries that are designed for use in theclassroom.Wearealsoopentoarticlesthatpresent,describe,orevaluate classroom strategies for using media. Followingtradition, the media section will include reviews of newlyreleased films. While we hope to publish timely reviews ofimportant newly released films and DVDs, we are alsointerested in reviews of TV series, televised documentaries,and commercial films. We have an expanded definition ofmedia that includes contemporary forms of social media.Reviews of blogs, websites, on line resources, and videos arealso encouraged. We hope to publish reviews of experientialexercises and educational and simulation games. We wouldalso be interested in articles detailing uses and responses tomedia such as I click, d2l, tweeting, and texting. If you areinterested in reviewing a particular film or other materials,contact us to obtain the materials from the distributor. Moreinformation about writing a media review can be found on the