| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) |
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| Series |
Ingram Digital E-books (T & F), 2008-2014.
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| Note |
Rev. papers of a symposium. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
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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Women -- Press coverage.
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Mass media and women. (OCoLC)fst01011380
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Television broadcasting of news. (OCoLC)fst01146787
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Women and journalism. (OCoLC)fst01177090
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Women -- Press coverage.
(OCoLC)fst01176887
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Journalisten.
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Beroepspraktijk.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Invloed.
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Nieuwsvoorziening.
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| Added Author |
Carter, Cynthia, 1959- editor.
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Branston, Gill, editor.
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Allan, Stuart, 1962- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: News, gender, and power. New York : Routledge, 1998 (DLC) 98012179 |
| ISBN |
9780203010631 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0203010639 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780415170154 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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041517015X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780415170161 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415170168 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415170168 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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