Description |
xi, 298 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Setting new(s) agendas: An introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan -- Pt. I. The gender politics of journalism. 1. The politics of the smile: 'Soft news' and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland. 2. One of the girls?: The changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen. 3. Juvenation: News, girls and power / John Hartley. 4. Gender, privacy and publicity in 'media event space' / Lisa McLaughlin. 5. 'Mrs Knight must be balanced': Methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim. 6. Politicizing the personal: Women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra MacDonald. 7. (En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan -- Pt. II. The gendered realities of news. 8. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner. 9. Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley |
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10. 'Mad cows and Englishmen': Gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis / Rod Brookes and Beverley Holbrook. 11. The gender-politics of news production: Silenced voices and false memories / Jenny Kitzinger. 12. Gender and the agenda: News reporting of child sexual abuse / Paula Skidmore. 13. When the 'extraordinary' becomes 'ordinary': Everyday news of sexual violence / Cynthia Carter. 14. A family affair: The British press, sex and the Wests / Maggie Wykes. 15. Crimewatch UK: Keeping women off the streets / C. Kay Weaver |
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Setting new(s) agendas: An introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan -- Pt. I. The gender politics of journalism. 1. The politics of the smile: 'Soft news' and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland. 2. One of the girls?: The changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen. 3. Juvenation: News, girls and power / John Hartley. 4. Gender, privacy and publicity in 'media event space' / Lisa McLaughlin. 5. 'Mrs Knight must be balanced': Methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim. 6. Politicizing the personal: Women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra MacDonald. 7. (En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan --Pt. II. The gendered realities of news. 8. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner. 9. Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Rev. papers of a symposium |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Mass media and girls.
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Women -- Press coverage.
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Women and journalism -- Congresses.
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Women -- Press coverage -- Congresses.
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Television broadcasting of news -- Congresses.
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Mass media and women -- Congresses.
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Feminism -- Congresses.
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Women and journalism.
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Television broadcasting of news.
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Mass media and women.
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Feminism.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Branston, Gill.
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Allan, Stuart, 1962-
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Carter, Cynthia, 1959-
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LC no. |
98012179 |
ISBN |
041517015X hardback alkaline paper |
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0415170168 paperback alkaline paper |
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