Women and Media: The History of an Activist's Fight for Equality

ISBN-13: 9783838306278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 380 str.

Walker, Danna

Opis

Even women who flooded the field of journalism during the Second Wave of the Womens Movement had little knowledge of the relentless campaign by women in the movement, in media, government, law, and politics to reform media. In this book, media feminist scholar Danna Walker reveals the evolution of the womens media activism that flourished when feminists began defining news - often identified as the main source of discourse in a democracy -- as a gendered field representing a male-dominated society. The story is told through the life and work of Donna Allen, founder of the Womens Institute for Freedom of the Press, a think tank that helped to legitimize womens place in the public sphere. The institutes newsletter, Media Report to Women, is the only source for much of the historical record on class action lawsuits against media companies, nationwide challenges of broadcast licenses, and the other landmark reform efforts by women working to change society. This book contributes to a growing body of research into the impact of womens media activism over the last 40 years on media reform, public perceptions, media technology, and communication history and education.

O autorze

Danna Walker, Ph.D., studies media with an emphasis on gender studies, feminist theory, and new media. She has authored numerous articles in academic journals, on Web sites and in the mainstream media. She is a journalism fellow at American University in Washington, D.C., and resides with her husband and two children in Kensington, Md.