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Women and the media: diverse perspectives
Publisher
University Press of America
Publication Date
c2005
Language
English
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Pt. 1. Commodifying and exoticizing the female body
1. male gaze in India's television commercials / Abhik Roy
2. Israeli womb : images of gendered nationalism in the Israeli press / Orly Shachar
3. Lesbians in film : an examination of intimate danger / Catherine Gillotti
4. Hegemony and sexual commodification of women in the Japanese media / Kimiko Akita
5. Gender, class, and suffering in the Argentinian Telenovela Milagros : an Italian perspective / Giovanna Del Negro
6. Images of gender in Super Bowl advertising : a content analysis / Barbara King
7. Locating Italianita in Nancy Savoca's True love and Penny Marshall's Riding in cars with boys / Theresa Carilli
8. Embodying deviance : representing women and drugs in the 1990s / Michele T. Berger
9. Men change, women stay the same : images in ads targeted at young and mature adults / Tom Reichert
Pt. 2. Stereotypical depictions
10. Safety and restriction : the construction of black women's sexuality in Essence magazine / Gloria Gadsden
11. Press coverage and awareness of gender equality issues in Japan / Shinichi Saito and Reiko Ishiyama
12. Women in propaganda posters in post-liberation China : portrayals of insidious oppression / Xin-An Lu and Linda Y. Devenish
Pt. 3. Portrayals of political activism
13. Butterflies and boobs : ecofeminine complicity (or how to manufacture an environmental pin up girl) / Tina Richardson and Audrey Vanderford
14. Performing politics : media aesthetics for women in political campaigns / Lori Montalbano-Phelps
15. Million moms, MADD mothers, and feminists : media coverage of women activists / Angela High-Pippert
16. life's work : preserving and transcending immigrant culture / Linda Brigance
Pt. 4. Media pioneers
17. Joan Ganz Cooney : the children's television workshop / Margaret Finucane
18. Frances Benjamin Johnston : mother of photojournalism / Cynthia Lont
19. Recontextualizing the "change" : rhetorical and performative constructions of menopause in Cybil / Dacia Charlesworth.
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9780761830405
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