{"product_id":"women-and-media-isbn-9781405116077","title":"Women and Media","description":"\u003ci\u003eWomen and Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRooted 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentifies key issues and developments in feminist media critiques and interventions over the last 30 years, as these relate to production, representation and consumption.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFunctions as both a research case study and a teaching text.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and acknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the authors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Research on women and media: a short history 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Women in\/as entertainment 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Images of women in news and magazines 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Women as audience 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Women and production: gender and the political economy of media industries 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Women, media, and the public sphere: shifting the agenda 97\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Toward a Model of Women’s Media Action 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 First path: politics to media 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Second path: media profession to politics 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Third path: advocate change agent 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Fourth path: women’s media enterprises 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Conclusion 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: research participants 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName index 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject index 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  “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.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLinda Steiner, Rutgers University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret Gallagher,\u003c\/i\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eGender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCulture and Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eCarolyn M. Byerly\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program of Mass Communication and Media Studies, Department of Journalism, Howard University, Washington DC (USA). She teaches seminars in mass communication theory, research methods, media effects, and political communication. Recent publications include \u003ci\u003eWomen and Media: International Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (edited with Karen Ross, Blackwell, 2004), \"After 9\/11: Formation of an Oppositional Discourse,\" (\u003ci\u003eFeminist Media Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, Fall 2005), and \"Women and the Concentration of Media Ownership\" (in R. R. Rush, C.E. Oukrop, and P. J. Creedon, \u003ci\u003eSeeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication Education\u003c\/i\u003e, Erlbaum, 2004).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Ross\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., is Professor of Mass Communication at Coventry University (UK). She teaches research methods, gender politics and media, and audience studies and is has written extensively on issues of in\/equality in communication and culture. Her previous books include: \u003ci\u003eGender and Newsroom Cultures: Identities at Work\u003c\/i\u003e (with Marjan de Bruin, Hampton Press, 2004); \u003ci\u003eWomen and Media: International Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (edited with Carolyn M. Byerly, Blackwell, 2004); \u003ci\u003eMedia and Audiences\u003c\/i\u003e (with Virginia Nightingale, Open University Press, 2003. She is currently working on two studies relating to press coverage of elections from a gender perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eWomen and Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s. The book provides an overview of the key issues and developments in feminist media critiques and interventions over the last 30 years, beginning with the extant literature in this growing field and ending with a new study of women’s media activism in 20 nations. The authors recount and analyze the first-hand narratives of nearly 100 women media activists whose work has contributed to the making of a feminist public sphere that has moved women leaders and agendas more forcefully into their societies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis highly original empirical base, and the Model of Women's Media Action that the authors developed from it, provides a unique account of women’s struggles to improve, create, and otherwise employ media in pushing for social change. The text is written in a concise, engaging style, laying out the central concerns about the women–media relationship as it has operated in a variety of political\/critical contexts. It can be used alongside \u003ci\u003eWomen and Media: International Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), by the same authors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990501408997,"sku":"NP9781405116077","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405116077.jpg?v=1761788082","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/women-and-media-isbn-9781405116077","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}