Women and the media: diverse perspectives

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.