Feminist Interventions in International Communication Minding the Gap

by Sarikakis, Katharine; Shade, Leslie Regan; Al-Mahadin, Salam; Beale, Alison; Crow, Barbara; Cunningham, Sheryl; Gallagher, Margaret; Giffard, C Anthony; Huws, Ursula; Jiwani, Yasmin; Made, Patricia; McKercher, Catherine; McLaughlin, Lisa; Mosco, Vincent;

• ISBN13: 9780742553040
• ISBN10: 0742553043
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-05
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the state of international communications, a top-notch author group covers cases on online news, pornography, democracy, policies for women's development, violence against women, information workers, print media, telecentres, media coverage of HIV/AIDS, and more. This important book provides fresh feminist insights into international communication, showing the baby steps taken toward women's justice in these areas and how far there is yet to go.

Table of Contents

Revisiting International Communication Studies
Revisiting International Communication: Approach of the Curious Feminist	p. 3
Feminist Issues and the Global Media System	p. 17
Public/Private: The Hidden Dimension of International Communication	p. 33
Women, Participation, and Democracy in the Information Society	p. 45
Gendering Policy Regimes
The Expediency of Women	p. 59
Gender-Sensitive Communication Policies for Women's Development: Issues and Challenges	p. 74
The Spectral Politics of Mobile Communication Technologies: Gender, Infrastructure, and International Policy	p. 90
The Global Structures and Cultures of Pornography: The Global Brothel	p. 106
Mediating Meanings, Mediating Regimes of Power
Mediations of Domination: Gendered Violence Within and Across Borders	p. 129
From Religious Fundamentalism to Pornography? The Female Body as Text in Arabic Song Videos	p. 146
Female Faces in the Millennium Development Goals: Reflections in the Mirrors of Media	p. 161
Deadly Synergies: Gender Inequality, HIV/AIDS, and the Media	p. 176
Online News: Setting New Gender Agendas?	p. 188
Laboring International Communication
Convergences: Elements of a Feminist Political Economy of Labor and Communication	p. 207
Women, Information Work, and the Corporatization of Development	p. 224
Empire and Sweatshop Girlhoods: The Two Faces of the Global Culture Industry	p. 241
Glocalizing Media and Technologies
Feminist Print Cultures in the Digital Era	p. 259
Communication and Women in Eastern Europe: Challenges in Reshaping the Democratic Sphere	p. 276
GodZone? NZ's Classification of Explicit Material in an Era of Global Fundamentalism	p. 291
Grounding Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) for Telecentres: The Experiences of Ecuador and the Philippines	p. 307
Index	p. 323
About the Contributors	p. 329
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