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.
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
