Description
Book SynopsisMinority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status. Whilst their voices are frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves. This book provides insights into how women are represented in different media, including newspapers, television shows, films, and online platforms. Scholars of media studies, women's studies, and communication will find this book particularly useful.
Trade ReviewMinority Women and Western Media is an important study in the light of concerns relating to the experiences of Muslim women across the world’s media today and the challenges faced in relation to misrepresentation. It fulfills an important function, one that seeks to improve understandings and build relations in the context of wider social and political polarization given the specific concerns regarding the positions and realities of Muslim women across the world today. -- Tahir Abbas, Leiden University
Table of ContentsContents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Towards a New Freedom
THERESA CARILLI
Chapter 1: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Belonging: Media Representations of American Muslim Women (The Case of the New York Times 2007-2017)
MAHA BASHRI
Chapter 2: Reinforcing or Reframing Dominant Views? A Discourse Analysis of Black South African Women’s Self-Representations of Natural Hair in the Blogosphere
KHULEKANI MADLELA
Chapter 3: Drawing a Portrait of Refugee Representation in Turkish Newspapers: A Framing Analysis of Hürriyet and Sabah
BERIS ARTAN ÖZORAN and ILGAR SEDYIDOV
Chapter 4: On “Getting Yassmined”: How the Australian Media Polices the Bodies of Women of Color
LETICIA ANDERSON and KATHOMI GATWIRI
Chapter 5: Iranian Women and the Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Untold
ZAHRA JAFARI
Chapter 6: Silencing and Victim Blaming of a Woman Who Stutters: A Televised Case Study
SIGAL BARAK-BRANDES and DEBORA FREUD
Chapter 7: Women in British Muslim Media: New Voices and Emerging Discourses
SAMEERA TAHIRA AHMED
Epilogue: Global Solidarity for New Media Realities and Discourses
MAHA BASHRI and SAMEERA TAHIRA AHMED
