Women and Media: International Perspectives

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments x

1 Introduction 1
Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross

Part I Representing and Consuming Women 9

Introduction

2 Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Against Women and Children 13
Jenny Kitzinger

3 Exclusion and Marginality: Portrayals of Women in Israeli Media 39
Dafna Lemish

4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics 60
Karen Ross

5 The Woman Warrior: A Feminist Political Economic Analysis of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 81
Ellen Riordan

Part II Women’s Agency in Media Production 105

Introduction

6 Feminist Interventions in Newsrooms 109
Carolyn M. Byerly

7 Working, Watching, and Waiting: Women and Issues of Access, Employment, and Decision-Making in the Media in India 132
Ammu Joseph

8 “Dangerously Feminine?” Theory and Praxis of Women’s Alternative Radio 157
Caroline Mitchell

9 Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier? 185
Gillian Youngs

Index 209