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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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Abstract:
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.
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- Women and journalism.
- Women -- Press coverage.
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- Mass media and women.
- Feminism.
- Journalisten.
- Beroepspraktijk.
- Sekseverschillen.
- Invloed.
- Nieuwsvoorziening.
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- Télévision -- Émissions de nouvelles.
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