Writing women : the women's pages of the Malay-language press (1987-1998) / / Sonia Randhawa

• Autore: Randhawa Sonia
• Pubblicazione: Gateway East, Singapore : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 941.50821
• Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity; Women - Press coverage
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- The Context -- Hegemony, Its Limits and the Malaysian Media -- Constraints on the Newspapers and Their Journalists -- The Multi-Lingual Print Landscape: Shaping Malay Identities -- Neoliberalism and the Construction of the Melayu Baru -- Malaysia: An Authoritarian State? -- Textual Analysis: Feminist Media Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis -- My Respondents -- Chapter Outline -- 2 Women in the Newsrooms: Their Perceptions and Stories -- Women Journalists in Male Papers -- The Glass Ceiling, Promotions and Pay -- The Newsroom Culture -- Malestream Journalists and Women on the Margins -- Ethics as Constraint and Opportunity -- Conclusion -- 3 Evolving Constructions of the Malay-Muslim Woman in Utusan Malaysia -- Utusan's Leader Page: Writing the Umno Model -- Men Writing the Melayu Baru -- Writing Women in Utusan's Leader Page -- Comparing the Construction of Women in Advice Columns in the Women's and Religion Pages -- The Women's Pages of Utusan -- Di celah-celah kehidupan -- The Entrepreneur and the Deserving Poor in the Wanita Pages -- The Neoliberal Self in the Malay-Language Papers: Contrasting the Leader and Women's Pages -- Conclusion -- 4 The Different Voices of Women in Berita Harian -- Neoliberalism in Berita Harian -- The Female 'Melayu Baru' in BH -- Women as Bearers of Culture -- Islam Under Threat and the Role of Women as Protectors of Culture -- The "Pesta Seks" in Kedah -- Writing Outside the Hierarchy: The Women's Desk of Berita Harian -- Creating Feminist Spaces Through Berita Wanita -- Shrinking Spaces: The Women's Desk During the Asian Financial Crisis -- Conclusion -- 5 Umno, Editors and the Women's Page Journalists. ; Writing for Women: Contrasting the Missions of Women's Page and Malestream Women Journalists -- Constraints on Women's Page Journalists in Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia -- Agency, Paradox and Islam -- Dutiful Daughters, Enforcers of Morality -- Women as Wives: Insecurity, Dependence and Institutional Inadequacy -- Gejala Sosial and the Bad Mother -- Islam as the Answer -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Gender Politics, Neoliberalism and Hegemony -- Appendix: Brief Biographies of Oral History Respondents (in Alphabetical Order) -- Glossary -- Notes on Usage -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines how women journalists in Malaysia negotiated male power structures, in particular structures determined by the keystone party of the ruling coalition, the United Malays National Organisation. Through both oral histories and content analysis, it looks at how women journalists in the women's pages of the newspapers found spaces to advocate for their readers. It is thus the first work to look at the importance of the women's pages in the Malay-language newspapers, and how apparently monolithic institutions of the authoritarian state hid diverse contests for resources and prestige.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing Women
• ISBN: 9789811911071; 9789811911064
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910585768903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II