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Women and Media: A Critical Introduction
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by Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross
Sales Rank: 753893
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Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell January 24, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1405116072
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1405116077
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 14.1 ounces
Product Review
“Byerly and Ross not only advocate but succeed in integrating theory with empirical data, and may inspire a few readers to undertake their own media action.”
Linda Steiner, Rutgers University
“The first comprehensive attempt to theorize women's media activism and its relationship to social change. An inspiring chronicle of feminist interventions in media systems world-wide, and a welcome bridge between scholarship and practice.”
Margaret Gallagher, author of Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy
“The essays are forays into areas of media studies which will only grow with the growing presence and innovations of women in this central field of contemporary culture.”
Midwest Book Review
"A useful outline of global feminist media scholarship for students and practitioners. The book opens up new directions for future research, tempering an engagement with historical development of women's media activism with attention to the real voices and experiences of current activists and practitioners."
Culture and Policy
Product Description
Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.
- Rooted in a series of interviews with women media workers and activists collected specifically for this book, the text provides an original insight into women’s experiences.
- Explains the ways that women have organized their internal and external campaigns to improve media content (or working conditions) for women, and established womenowned media to gain a public voice.
- Identifies key issues and developments in feminist media critiques and interventions over the last thirty years, as these relate to production, representation and consumption.
- Functions as both a research case study and a teaching text.
Reader Reviews
Woman's presence and influence on both major areas of the media is examined--the production and managerial side, and the side of the finished works for the public in the various media, from radio and print media to TV programs and mass-market movies. Coverage of domestic violence, women politicians, and women main characters in movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are among the subjects bringing to light women in the media. Two of the essays--among eight plus an introduction by the editors--on women and the media in Israel and India relate a picture of how women are playing a role in the media outside of U.S. and other Western countries. Most of the authors are connected with communications or media departments at universities, with a couple being media journalists or authors. The timely, elucidating collected articles leave off with a consideration of women in the world of cyberspace, the frontier of today's media. Women have "explored the new freedoms, in terms of social and relational spaces and identities, that cyberspaces enable, and investigated women-machine linkages...and their significance for transgression of patriarchal traditions of thought and practice and for new knowledge-building processes." The essays are forays into areas of media studies which will only grow with the growing presence and innovations of women in this central field of contemporary culture.
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