The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights

A timely feminist intervention on gender, communication, and women’s human rights The Handbook on Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights engages contemporary debates on women’s rights, democracy, and neoliberalism through the lens of feminist communication scholarship. The first major collection of its kind published in the COVID-19 era, this unique volume frames a wide range of issues relevant to the gender and communication agenda within a human rights framework. An international panel of feminist academics and activists examines how media, information, and communication systems contribute to enabling, ignoring, questioning, or denying women's human and communication rights. Divided into four parts, the Handbook covers governance and policy, systems and institutions, advocacy and activism, and content, rights, and freedoms. Throughout the text, the contributors demonstrate the need for strong feminist critiques of exclusionary power structures, highlight new opportunities and challenges in promoting change, illustrate both the risks and rewards associated with digital communication, and much more. Offers a state-of-the-art exploration of the intersection between gender, communication, and women's rights Addresses both core and emerging topics in feminist media scholarship and research Discusses the vital role of communication systems and processes in women's struggles to claim and exercise their rights Analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated structures of inequality and intensified the spread of disinformation Explores feminist-based concepts and approaches that could enrich communication policy at all levels Part of the Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research series, TheHandbook of Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, journalism, feminist studies, gender studies, global studies, and human rights programs at institutions around the world. It is also an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, policymakers, and civil society and human rights activists.

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements xv 1 Introduction: Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights 1 Margaret Gallagher and Aimée Vega Montiel Part I Governance and Policy 15 2 Gender Dimensions of Communication Governance: Perspectives, Principles, and Practices 17 Claudia Padovani 3 Communicating Gender in Global Development 35 Karin Gwinn Wilkins 4 Gendered Disinformation and Platform Accountability 53 Margaret Gallagher 5 From Media Reform to Data Justice: Situating Women's Rights as Human Rights 71 Leslie Regan Shade Part II Systems and Institutions 89 6 Gender, Race, and Locality: Intersectionality in Media and Communication 91 Laura Guimarães Corrêa 7 Gender Dimensions of Communication Industries: A Political Economy Analysis 105 Carolyn M. Byerly 8 Power in AI: Inequality Within and Without the Algorithm 123 Kate Devlin 9 Challenges for Women Journalists in the Age of Covid, and Union and Media Repression: One Trade Unionist's Perspective 141 Mindy Ran 10 Women and the News: Reimagining Journalism 159 Maria João Silveirinha 11 Revisiting and Unpacking the #MeToo Moment 175 Ammu Joseph Part III Content, Rights, and Freedoms 193 12 Promoting Gender Equality in Media Content: A Limitation or Extension of Freedom of Expression? 195 Maria Edström and Eva-Maria Svensson 13 Digital Culture, Online Misogyny, and Gender-based Violence 213 Debbie Ging 14 Media Do Not Represent Me: Young Women's Social Media Lives 229 Rosalind Gill and Whitney Francois-Cull 15 Gendering Surveillance from a South Asian Perspective 245 Shmyla Khan 16 Pornography in Feminist Theory 261 Rosa Cobo Bedía 17 Violence Against Women in and Through the Media and Digital Technologies 273 Aimée Vega Montiel Part IV Strategies, Advocacy, and Activism 287 18 The Feminist Principles of the Internet: A Framework for Feminist Organizing and Research in a Digital Age 289 Janine Moolman and Christy Alves Nascimento 19 Lessons Learned from Communication Strategies Created by Indigenous Women 305 Karla Prudencio 20 Gender Equality in and Through the Media in Southern Africa 321 Tarisai Nyamweda 21 Digital Media and Feminist Activism in Latin America: Cyberfeminism 3.0 337 Graciela Natansohn 22 A Feminist Critique of Gender Mainstreaming in Journalism and Communication Education 347 Yanet Martínez Toledo, Lucía Gloria Vázquez Rodríguez, and María Soledad Vargas 23 Building the Evidence for Feminist Advocacy and Awareness-raising: The Global Media Monitoring Project 361 Sarah Macharia 24 Transnational Feminist Organizing and Advocacy for Gender Justice and Women's Rights 377 Dinah Musindarwezo, Felogene Anumo, and Sanyu Awori Index 395