News, gender, and power /
News, gender, and power /
[edited by] Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston, and Stuart Allan.
- xi, 298 p. : ill.
Rev. papers of a symposium.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting new(s) agendas : an introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan. Part I. The gender politics of journalism. The politics of the smile : "soft news" and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland -- One of the girls? : the changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen -- Juvenation : news, girls and power / John Hartley -- Gender, privacy and publicity in "media event space" / Lisa McLaughlin -- "Mrs Knight must be balanced" : methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim -- Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald -- (En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan. Part II. The gendered realities of news. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner -- Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley -- "Mad cows and Englishmen" : gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis / Rod Brookes and Beverley Holbrook -- The gender-politics of news production : silenced voices and false memories / Jenny Kitzinger -- Gender and the agenda : news reporting of child sexual abuse / Paula Skidmore -- When the "extraordinary" becomes "ordinary" : everyday news of sexual violence / Cynthia Carter -- A family affair : the British press, sex and the Wests / Maggie Wykes -- Crimewatch UK : keeping women off the streets / C. Kay Weaver.
0415170168 (pbk. : alk. paper) 041517015X (hbk. : alk. paper)
98012179
Women and journalism
Women--Press coverage
Television broadcasting of news
Mass media and women
Feminism.
PN4784.W7 / N48 1998
070.4082
Rev. papers of a symposium.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting new(s) agendas : an introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan. Part I. The gender politics of journalism. The politics of the smile : "soft news" and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland -- One of the girls? : the changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen -- Juvenation : news, girls and power / John Hartley -- Gender, privacy and publicity in "media event space" / Lisa McLaughlin -- "Mrs Knight must be balanced" : methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim -- Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald -- (En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan. Part II. The gendered realities of news. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner -- Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley -- "Mad cows and Englishmen" : gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis / Rod Brookes and Beverley Holbrook -- The gender-politics of news production : silenced voices and false memories / Jenny Kitzinger -- Gender and the agenda : news reporting of child sexual abuse / Paula Skidmore -- When the "extraordinary" becomes "ordinary" : everyday news of sexual violence / Cynthia Carter -- A family affair : the British press, sex and the Wests / Maggie Wykes -- Crimewatch UK : keeping women off the streets / C. Kay Weaver.
0415170168 (pbk. : alk. paper) 041517015X (hbk. : alk. paper)
98012179
Women and journalism
Women--Press coverage
Television broadcasting of news
Mass media and women
Feminism.
PN4784.W7 / N48 1998
070.4082