Gender, Citizenship and Newspapers: Historical and Transnational Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780230232440 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 238 str.

Jane L Chapman

Opis

The gendered nature of the relationship between the press and emergence of cultural citizenship from the 1860s to the 1930s is explored through original data and insightful comparisons between India, Britain and France in this integrated approach to women's representation in newspapers, their role as news sources and their professional activity.

Spis treści

PART I: SETTING THE PARAMETERS Introduction: Tracing Patterns, Linkages and Evidence  PART II: PIONEERS AND EMERGING COMMERCIAL TENSIONS 1. France: Pioneering the Popular Newspaper Brand and the Female Market 2. France and Britain: Cultural Citizenship and the Rise of Consumer Society PART III: LABOUR MOVEMENT ROOTS AND THE POLITICS of EXCLUSION 3. French India: from Private to Public Sphere  4. Britain: Finding a Voice for the Vote in the Mainstream Press PART IV: CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP AND DIRECT ACTION 5. Britain: Apocalypse and Press as a Double Edged Sword 6. British India: Women and the Hegemonic Colonial Press PART V: TRACES AND OUTCOMES Afterwords and Conclusion Bibliography Tables

O autorze

Jane Chapman is Professor of Communications, Lincoln University, UK, a visiting Fellow at Wolfson College and the Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge, and Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. She has eight books in media history, journalism and documentary and runs grants for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) and the British Academy.