Title: News, gender, and power /
Authors: Carter, Cynthia, 1959-; Branston, Gill.; Allan, Stuart, 1962-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Women and journalism.; Women Press coverage.; Television broadcasting of news; Mass media and women.; Feminism
Abstract: This book addresses the questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism, and draws on feminist theory and gender-sensitive critiques to explore the interconnections between news, gender and power.
Contents: Setting new(s) agendas : an introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan. Part I. The gender politics of journalism. The politics of the smile : "soft news" and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland -- One of the girls? : the changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen -- Juvenation : news, girls and power / John Hartley -- Gender, privacy and publicity in "media event space" / Lisa McLaughlin -- "Mrs Knight must be balanced" : methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim -- Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald -- (En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan.