Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.

• Rooted in a series of interviews with women media workers and activists collected specifically for this book, the text provides an original insight into women's experiences.


• Explains the ways that women have organized their internal and external campaigns to improve media content (or working conditions) for women, and established womenowned media to gain a public voice.
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Comprised of original research in diverse genres and medias, Women and Media: International Perspectives brings together eight international scholars to explore key issues of the gender-media relation.

• Provides important insights into how gender is implicated in media industries.
  
• Address key issues of the gender-media relation, from an analysis of news media's coverage of women politicians, to the marketing of 'girl power', to strategizing for equality in newsrooms.
  
• Highlights the theme that media have the potential both to...

Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.

• Rooted in a series of interviews with women media workers and activists collected specifically for this book, the text provides an original insight into women's experiences.


• Explains the ways that women have organized their internal and external campaigns to improve media content (or working conditions) for women, and established womenowned media to gain a public voice.
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