Women and Media: International Perspectives

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: Carolyn Byerly and Karen Ross.

Part I: Representing And Consuming Women:.

2. Sexual Violence in the Media: Representation, Interaction and Discourse: Jenny Kitzinger (Cardiff University).

3. Exclusion and Marginality: Portrayals of Women in Israeli Media: Dafna Lemish (Tel Aviv University).

4. Women Framed: the Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics: Karen Ross (Coventry University).

5. Producing and Consuming ‘Woman’: Ellen Riordan (Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota).

Part II Women’s Agency In Media Production:.

6. Feminist Interventions in Newsrooms: Carolyn M Byerly (University of Maryland).

7. Working, Watching and Waiting: Women and Issues of Access, Employment and Decision-Making in the Media in India: Ammu Joseph (Journalist, India).

8. Dangerously Feminine?: Theory and Praxis of Women’s Alternative Radio: Then and Now: Caroline Mitchell (University of Sunderland).

9. Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier?: Gillian Youngs (University of Leicester).

Index