{"product_id":"women-and-media-9781405116060","title":"Women and Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Byerly and Ross not only advocate but succeed in integrating theory with empirical data, and may inspire a few readers to undertake their own media action.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLinda Steiner, Rutgers University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The first comprehensive attempt to theorize women's media activism and its relationship to social change. An inspiring chronicle of feminist interventions in media systems world-wide, and a welcome bridge between scholarship and practice.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret Gallagher,\u003c\/i\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eGender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The essays are forays into areas of media studies which will only grow with the growing presence and innovations of women in this central field of contemporary culture.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A useful outline of global feminist media scholarship for students and practitioners. The book opens up new directions for future research, tempering an engagement with historical development of women's media activism with attention to the real voices and experiences of current activists and practitioners.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCulture and Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and acknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the authors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I Research on women and media: a short history 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Women in\/as entertainment 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Images of women in news and magazines 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Women as audience 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Women and production: gender and the political economy of media industries 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Women, media, and the public sphere: shifting the agenda 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Toward a Model of Women’s Media Action 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 First path: politics to media 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Second path: media profession to politics 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Third path: advocate change agent 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Fourth path: women’s media enterprises 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Conclusion 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: research participants 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName index 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject index 284\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407852151127,"sku":"9781405116060","price":84.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405116060.jpg?v=1730500740","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-and-media-9781405116060","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}