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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23082
• Soggetto topico: Mass media and women
• Altri autori: RossKaren <1957-> ByerlyCarolyn M
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and media
• ISBN: 1-281-31108-1; 9786611311087; 0-470-77642-0; 0-470-77717-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996203743103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno