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Record Nr.

UNISA996201982003316

Autore

Byerly Carolyn M

Titolo

Women and media [[electronic resource] ] : a critical introduction / / Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-281-21464-7

9786611214647

0-470-79845-9

0-470-77490-8

1-4051-5316-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RossKaren <1957->

Disciplina

302.23082

Soggetti

Women in the mass media industry

Women in mass media

Mass media and women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; About the authors; 1 Introduction; Part I Research on women and media:a short history; 2 Women in/as entertainment; 3 Images of women in news and magazines; 4 Women as audience; 5 Women and production:gender and the political economy  of media industries; Part II Women,media,and the public sphere: shifting the agenda; 6 Toward a Model of Women 's Media Action; 7 First path:politics to media; 8 Second path:media profession to politics; 9 Third path:advocate change agent; 10 Fourth path:women 's media enterprises; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography

Appendix:research participantsName index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.Rooted in a series of interviews with women media workers and activists collected specifically for this book, the text provides an original insight into women's experiences.Explains the ways that women have organized their internal and external campaigns to improve media content (or working conditions)



for women, and established womenowned media to gain a public voice.Identifies key i