Women and Media

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 also to contribute to new, more egalitarian ones.

• Includes an introduction by the editors that carefully maps the contours of the international struggle between feminists and the media, section overviews, bibliographies, key terms, and discussion questions.

Autorentext
Karen Ross is a reader in mass communication at Coventry University. Her recent books include Black Marks: Minority Ethnic Audiences and Media (edited, 2001); Women, Politics and Change (edited, 2002); Women, Politics, Media: Uneasy Relations in Comparative Perspective (2002); Mapping the Margins: Identity Politics and Media (edited with Deniz Derman, 2003); and Media and Audiences (with Virginia Nightingale, 2003).

Carolyn M. Byerly teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. She is the author of numerous chapters in edited collections and articles in journals including Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism Educator, and Inter/Sections.

Klappentext
In the last few decades, feminist media scholars have been active in revealing the complex ways in which the gendermedia relation is played out in production, consumption, and reception. From an analysis of news media's coverage of women politicians, through the marketing of "girl power", to strategizing for equality in newsrooms, Women and Media: International Perspectives provides important insights into how gender is integrated in media industries.

Bringing together original essays by international scholars that explore key concerns between gender and media, Women and Media conveys the dynamism of this issue. Importantly, the theme that runs through the volume and which serves to unify these otherwise diverse articles is that media have the potential both to reinforce the status quo in power arrangements in society and to contribute to new, more egalitarian ones. An ideal teaching tool for students, this lively volume includes part-section overviews, bibliographies, key terms, discussion questions, and an introduction by the editors that carefully maps the contours of the international struggle between feminists and the media.

Zusammenfassung

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 also to contribute to new, more egalitarian ones.
• Includes an introduction by the editors that carefully maps the contours of the international struggle between feminists and the media, section overviews, bibliographies, key terms, and discussion questions.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments x

1 Introduction 1
Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross

Part I Representing and Consuming Women 9

Introduction

2 Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Against Women and Children 13
Jenny Kitzinger

3 Exclusion and Marginality: Portrayals of Women in Israeli Media 39
Dafna Lemish

4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics 60
Karen Ross

5 The Woman Warrior: A Feminist Political Economic Analysis of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 81
Ellen Riordan

Part II Women's Agency in Media Production 105

Introduction

6 Feminist Interventions in Newsrooms 109
Carolyn M. Byerly

7 Working, Watching, and Waiting: Women and Issues of Access, Employment, and Decision-Making in the Media in India 132
Ammu Joseph

8 Dangerously Feminine? Theory and Praxis of Women's Alternative Radio 157
Caroline Mitchell

9 Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier? 185
Gillian Youngs

Index 209