Women and the media
Subtitle: diverse perspectives
By: edited by Theresa Carilli, Jane Campbell.
Contributors: Carilli, Theresa.; Campbell, Jane.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780761830405
Subjects: Mass media and women; Women in mass media; Women in journalism; Women in advertising
Description: "Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives is an innovative collection of 19 descriptive and empirical articles examining media depictions and highlighting significant contributions. This anthology has a cultural focus and addresses issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. With this book, the editors initiate a global dialogue about women and the media, broaden an insular American perspective, and contribute to a growing body of scholarship."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The male gaze in India's television commercials / Abhik Roy; title: The Israeli womb : images of gendered nationalism in the Israeli press / Orly Shachar; title: Lesbians in film : an examination of intimate danger / Catherine Gillotti; title: Hegemony and sexual commodification of women in the Japanese media / Kimiko Akita; title: Gender, class, and suffering in the Argentinian telenovela Milagros : an Italian perspective / Giovanna Del Negro; title: Images of gender in Super Bowl advertising : a content analysis / Barbara King; title: Locating italianita in Nancy Savoca's True love and Penny Marshall's Riding in cars with boys / Theresa Carilli; title: Embodying deviance : representing women and drugs in the 1990s / Michele T. Berger; title: Men change, women stay the same : images in ads targeted at young and mature adults / Tom Reichert; title: Safety and restriction : the construction of black women's sexuality in Essence magazine / Gloria Gadsden; title: Press coverage and awareness of gender equality issues in Japan / Shinichi Saito and Reiko Ishiyama; title: Women in propaganda posters in post-liberation China : portrayals of insidious oppression / Xin-An Lu and Linda Y. Devenish; title: Butterflies and boobs : ecofeminism complicity (or how to manufacture an environmental pin up girl) / Tina Richardson and Audrey Vanderford; title: Performing politics : media aesthetics for women in political campaigns / Lori Montalbano-Phelps; title: Million moms, MADD mothers, and feminists : media coverage of women activists / Angela High-Pippert; title: A life's work : preserving and transcending immigrant culture / Linda Brigance; title: Joan Ganz Cooney : the Children Television's Workshop / Margaret Finucane; title: Frances Benjamin Johnston : mother of photojournalism / Cynthia Lont; title: Recontextualizing the "change" : rhetorical and performative constructions of menopause in Cybil / Dacia Charlesworth.