TY - BOOK AU - Bathla,Sonia TI - Women, democracy, and the media: cultural and political representations in the Indian press SN - 8170367484 AV - PN5377.W58 B38 1998 U1 - 070.44930540954 PY - 1998/// CY - New Delhi, Thousand Oaks PB - Sage Publications KW - Women KW - Press coverage KW - India KW - Women in journalism KW - Press and politics N1 - Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Leicester, England; Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index; Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; 1; Introduction: Contextualising Women in the Democratic Media --; 2; The 'Gendered' Democracy --; 3; Brahmanical Hegemony: An Indian Cultural Paradigm --; 4; The Coverage of Women's Issues in the Press: Manufacturing Cultural Consensus --; 5; The Media and Feminism: The Ennui and the Antagonism --; 6; The Movement-Media Interface: Building Agendas? --; 7; Conclusions and Policy Implications --; Appendices --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author ER -