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

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.