Challenging images of women in the media : reinventing women's lives

Carilli, Theresa. (Added Author). Campbell, Jane, 1946- (Added Author).

Summary: Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women's Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. With a global focus, this collection scrutinizes issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality through a study of gendered media portrayals. By challenging the status quo of media images, the contributors to this essential volume invite a dialogue about women's lives.

Record details

ISBN: 0739176986
ISBN: 9780739176986
ISBN: 0739176994
ISBN: 9780739176993
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012.

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:february.18
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Feeling good never looked better: examining stereotypical representations of women in Special K advertisements / Vanessa Reimer, Rukhsana Ahmed -- Tales from the Ooku: the shogun's inner palace and the outer (mediated) world / Kimiko Akita -- Pakistani media and disempowerment of women / Saman Talib, Zara Idrees -- Women in film: treading water but fit for the marathon / Lisa French -- Mass media explain the global sex trade / Anne Johnston, Barbara Friedman, Autumn Shafer -- Gendered construction of HPV: a post-structuralist critique of Gardasil / Nicole Defenbaugh, Kimberly N. Kline -- Who's afraid of the Pink Chaddi?: new media, Hindutva, and feminist agency in India / Saayan Chattopadhyay -- Women of China magazine: the "modern" woman in a discourse of consumerism / Wei Luo -- From "babushki" to "sexy babes": the sexing-up of Bulgarian women in advertising / Elza Ibroscheva -- For and about women: Dorothy Jurney and "the Woman's Network" / Steven Carl Smith -- Angela Merkel has more to offer: satirical images of Germany's first female chancellor / Lynn Marie Kutch -- All hail the queen: the metamorphosis or selling out of Queen Latifah / Elizabeth Johnson -- 18,000,000 cracks or how Hillary almost became president / Lori L. Montalbano -- Big, black, boisterous badasses: why queen-sized African American women are never really royalty / Deatra Sullivan-Morgan -- Lesbian comics: negotiating queer visibility / Theresa Carilli.
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