Women and Media

Comprised of original research in diverse genres and medias, Women and Media: International Perspectives brings together eight international scholars to explore key issues of the gender-media relation. Provides important insights into how gender is implicated in media industries. Address key issues of the gender-media relation, from an analysis of news media’s coverage of women politicians, to the marketing of ‘girl power’, to strategizing for equality in newsrooms. Highlights the theme that media have the potential both to reinforce the status quo in power arrangements in society but also to contribute to new, more egalitarian ones. Includes an introduction by the editors that carefully maps the contours of the international struggle between feminists and the media, section overviews, bibliographies, key terms, and discussion questions.

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction 1 Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross Part I Representing and Consuming Women 9 Introduction 2 Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Against Women and Children 13 Jenny Kitzinger 3 Exclusion and Marginality: Portrayals of Women in Israeli Media 39 Dafna Lemish 4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics 60 Karen Ross 5 The Woman Warrior: A Feminist Political Economic Analysis of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 81 Ellen Riordan Part II Women’s Agency in Media Production 105 Introduction 6 Feminist Interventions in Newsrooms 109 Carolyn M. Byerly 7 Working, Watching, and Waiting: Women and Issues of Access, Employment, and Decision-Making in the Media in India 132 Ammu Joseph 8 “Dangerously Feminine?” Theory and Praxis of Women’s Alternative Radio 157 Caroline Mitchell 9 Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier? 185 Gillian Youngs Index 209