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Record Nr.

UNISA996203743103316

Titolo

Women and media [[electronic resource] ] : international perspectives / / edited by Karen Ross and Carolyn M. Byerly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell, c2004

ISBN

1-281-31108-1

9786611311087

0-470-77642-0

0-470-77717-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RossKaren <1957->

ByerlyCarolyn M

Disciplina

302.23082

Soggetti

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Women and Media: International Perspectives; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I Representing and Consuming Women; Introduction; 2 Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Against Women and Children; 3 Exclusion and Marginality: Portrayals of Women in Israeli Media; 4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics; 5 The Woman Warrior: A Feminist Political Economic Analysis of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Part II Women's Agency in Media Production; Introduction; 6 Feminist Interventions in Newsrooms

7 Working, Watching, and Waiting: Women and Issues of Access, Employment, and Decision-Making in the Media in India8 "Dangerously Feminine?" Theory and Praxis of Women's Alternative Radio; 9 Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier?; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Comprised of original research in diverse genres and medias, Women and Media: International Perspectives brings together eight international scholars to explore key issues of the gender-media relation.:.; Provides important insights into how gender is implicated in media industries.; Address key issues of the gender-media relation, from an analysis of news media's coverage of women politicians, to the



marketing of 'girl power', to strategizing for equality in newsrooms.; Highlights the theme that media have the potential both to reinforce the status quo in power arrangements in society but als