Karen Ross & Carolyn M. Byerly 
Women and Media [PDF ebook] 
International Perspectives

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.

Cuprins

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

Despre autor

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.