Women and media : a critical introduction / Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byerly, Carolyn M.

Contributor:

Ross, Karen, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the mass media industry.

Women in mass media.

Mass media and women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

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 i

Contents:

Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; About the authors; 1 Introduction; Part I Research on women and media:a short history; 2 Women in/as entertainment; 3 Images of women in news and magazines; 4 Women as audience; 5 Women and production:gender and the political economy of media industries; Part II Women,media,and the public sphere: shifting the agenda; 6 Toward a Model of Women 's Media Action; 7 First path:politics to media; 8 Second path:media profession to politics; 9 Third path:advocate change agent; 10 Fourth path:women 's media enterprises; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography

Appendix:research participantsName index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-272) and index.

ISBN:

9786611214647

9781281214645

1281214647

9780470798454

0470798459

9780470774908

0470774908

9781405153164

1405153164

OCLC:

437159309