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Challenging Images of Women in the Media
Reinventing Women's Lives
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2012
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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. This in-depth study shows how mixed messages from the media muddle attempts at breaking the “glass screen,” causing women to constantly question their role in global culture. With cake ads followed by diet commercials, the media’s depiction of women is both confusing and contradictory. While more and more women have begun to contribute to the media as respected anchors, talk show hosts, and commentators, these portrayals are often counteracted by music videos and reality television shows such as Jersey Shore. This collection seeks to analyze these depictions and their effects on women and culture. The contributors to this anthology hail from such diverse locations as Japan, Australia, Pakistan, India, China, Bulgaria, and the United States. With this global focus, Challenging Images of Women in the Media 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.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7698-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7699-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
199
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction to Challenging Images of Women in the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives No access
1 “Feeling Good Never Looked Better” No access
2 Tales from Ooku No access
3 Pakistani Media and Disempowerment of Women No access
4 Women in Film No access
5 Mass Media Explain the Global Sex Trade No access
6 Gendered Construction of HPV No access
7 Who’s Afraid of the Pink Chaddi? No access
8 Women of China Magazine No access
9 From “Babushki” to “Sexy Babes” No access
10 For and About Women No access
11 Angela Merkel Has More to Offer No access
12 All Hail the Queen No access
13 18,000,000 Cracks or How Hillary Almost Became President No access
