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News, gender, and power

Author: Cynthia Carter; Gill Branston; Stuart Allan
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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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.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cynthia Carter; Gill Branston; Stuart Allan
ISBN: 041517015X 9780415170154 0415170168 9780415170161
OCLC Number: 38326524
Notes: Rev. papers of a symposium.
Description: xi, 298 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Setting new(s) agendas : an introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan. Part I. The gender politics of journalism. The politics of the smile : "soft news" and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland --
One of the girls? : the changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen --
Juvenation : news, girls and power / John Hartley --
Gender, privacy and publicity in "media event space" / Lisa McLaughlin --
"Mrs Knight must be balanced" : methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim --
Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald --
(En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan. Part II. The gendered realities of news. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner --
Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley --
"Mad cows and Englishmen" : gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis / Rod Brookes and Beverley Holbrook --
The gender-politics of news production : silenced voices and false memories / Jenny Kitzinger --
Gender and the agenda : news reporting of child sexual abuse / Paula Skidmore --
When the "extraordinary" becomes "ordinary" : everyday news of sexual violence / Cynthia Carter --
A family affair : the British press, sex and the Wests / Maggie Wykes --
Crimewatch UK : keeping women off the streets / C. Kay Weaver.
Responsibility: edited by Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston, and Stuart Allan.
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Addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism, and explores the multiple interconnections between news, gender and power.  Read more...

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