Women and Media: A Critical Introduction

by Carolyn M. Byerly (Howard University); Karen Ross (Coventry University)

• ISBN13: 9781405153164
• ISBN10: 1405153164
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 30 years, as these relate to production, representation and consumption. Functions as both a research case study and a teaching text.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Research on Women and Media: A Short History.

Women in/as Entertainment

Images of Women in News and Magazines

Women as Audience

Women and Production: Gender and the Political Economy of Media Industries

Women, Media and the Public Sphere: Shifting the Agenda

Toward a Model of Women's Media Action

First Path: Politics to Media

Second Path: Media Profession to Politics

Third Path: Advocate Change Agent

Fourth Path: Women's Media Enterprises

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix: Research participants

Index

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