Women Transforming Communications

by Allen, Donna; Rush, Ramona R.; Kaufman, Susan J.

• ISBN13: 9780803972667
• ISBN10: 0803972660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-16
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

In this book over 30 women describe, from as many perspectives, a veritable revolution in communications that is currently transforming the world's communications system as we know it.The contributors illustrate how this revolution moves through three phases from initial visions, to overcoming obstacles, to creating a plan for the future. Most of the chapters are written by those who have been creating the transformations. The book is designed to share with women and men more 'herstories' of strategies of empowerment to transform communications systems which are not inclusive, especially as they concern issues important to women entering the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Websters and Spinsters

PART ONE: COMMUNICATION VISIONS - Ramona R Rush

Ten Tenets for Deeper Communications

Transforming Communications Theory and Research - Christy C Bulkeley

Transforming Faith in the First Amendment - Riane Eisler

Communication, Socialization, and Domination

The Replication of Violence and the Partnership Alternative - JoAnn Myer Valenti

Environmental Communication

A Female-Friendly Process - Edna F Einsiedel

Action Research

Implications for Gender, Development, and Communications - Frankie Hutton

Afrocentric, Archetypical Perspectives

Four Black Female Journalists - Anne Wilson Schaef

Return of a Native Daughter

PART TWO: COMMUNICATION CHASMS - Patricia Madoo Lengermann, Jill Niebrugge-Brantley, and Jane Kirkpatrick

Democracy, Technology, and the Public Library

A Feminist Sociological Analysis - Gloria Steinem

Revolutionary Circles within Larger Political Patterns

An Afterword to Revolution from Within - Annette J Samuels

Women, Ethnic and Language Minorities, and Mass Media - Judith Cramer

Uncovering the Media Coverage of Sport - Sandy Nelson

Suing the Sacred Cows That Fed Her - Susan J Kaufman

Surviving Auschwitz and the Media

A Mengele Twin's Media Voyage - Andrea Dworkin

Against the Male Flood

Censorship, Pornography, and Equality - Ramona R Rush

A Systemic Commitment to Women in the Academy

Barriers, Harrassment Prevent `Being All That We Can Be' - Kathryn Cirksena

Feminism after Ferment

Ten Years of Gendered Scholarship in Communications - Susan Holly Stocking and Julianne H Newton

The Wren, the Eagles, and the Assistant Professor - Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte

Demonstrations in Intellectual Diversity

Applied Theory to Challenge Campus Press Hegemony - Sharon A Russell

A Challenge to Traditional Media Technology in the Form of a Dialogue with an Absent Other - Pamela J Creedon

The Rib Syndrome

Rebels, Servants, and Victims

PART THREE: TRANSFORMATIVE COMMUNICATIONS - Paula Kassell

The Birth, Success, Death, and Lasting Influence of a Feminist Periodical

/f003New Directions for Women (1972-1993-?) - Fran P Hosken

Women and International Communication

The Story of /f003WIN News - Frieda Werden

The Founding of WINGS (Women's International News Gathering Service)

A Story of Feminist Radio Survival - Maria Suarez Toro

Feminist International Radio Endeavor - FIRE - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi

Women Communicating Globally

Mediating International Feminism - Casey Miller and Kate Swift

Reclaiming Language - Jannette L Dates and Carolyn A Stroman

African American Women and Mass Communication Research - Barbara Straus Reed

Women at Hearst Magazines

A Case Study of Women in Magazine Publishing - Elizabeth Dodson Gray

Television's Transformative Role in Courtroom Justice for Women and Children - Florangel Rosario-Braid

Filipino Women in Communications

Breaking New Grounds - Peggy A Simpson

The Washington Press Club Foundation's Oral History Project

Getting Women Journalists to Speak of Themselves, for Themselves, for Herstory's Sake - Sara Stuart and Renuka Bery

Powerful Grassroots Women Communicators

Participatory Video in Bangladesh - Marlene G Fine

Multicultural Literacy

Communicating in Culturally Diverse Organizations - Donna Allen

Women and Technology

Transforming Communication and Democracy