Challenging Images of Women in the Media

Reinventing Women's Lives
Herausgeber: Carilli, Theresa; Campbell, Jane

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women's Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. With a global focus, this collection scrutini...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9780739188699
• ISBN-10: 0739188690
• Artikelnr.: 39339569

Autorenporträt

Theresa Carilli is professor of communication at Purdue University Calumet. Jane Campbell is professor of English at Purdue University Calumet.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. Reinscribing Women's Roles Chapter 1. Feeling Good
Never Looked Better: Examining Representations of Women in Special K
Advertisements By Vanessa Reimer and Rukhsana Ahmed Chapter 2. Tales from
the Oh-Oku: The Shogun's Inner Palace and The Outer (Mediated) World By
Kimiko Akita Chapter 3. Pakistani Media and Disempowerment of Women By
Saman Talib and Zara Idrees Chapter 4. Women in Film . . . Treading Water
but fit for the Marathon By Lisa French Part 2. Political Issues Chapter 5.
Mass Media Explain the Global Sex Trade By Anne Johnston, Barbara Friedman,
and Autumn Shafer Chapter 6. Gendered Construction of Illness: A
Post-Structuralist Critique of Gardasil By Nicole Defenbaugh and Kimberly
Kline Chapter 7. Who's Afraid of the Pink Chaddi?: New Media, Hindutva, and
Feminist Agency in India By Saayan Chattopadhyay Part 3. Westernizing Women
Chapter 8. Representation of the Modern Chinese Woman in a Discourse of
Consumerism By Wei Luo Chapter 9. From "Babushki" to "Sexy Babes": The
Sexing-up of Women in Bulgarian Advertising By Elza Ibroscheva Part 4.
Political Individuals Chapter 10. Dorothy Jurney, Fran Harris, and
Professional Journalist Networks By Steven Carl Smith Chapter 11. The Media
Manipulation of Angela Merkel By Lynn Kutch Chapter 12. All Hail the Queen:
The Metamorphosis or Selling out of Queen Latifah By Elizabeth Johnson
Chapter 13. 18,000,000 Cracks or How Hillary Almost Became President By
Lori Montalbano Part 5. Reflective Essays Chapter 14. Big, Black,
Boisterous Badasses: Why Queen-Sized African American Women are Never
Really Royalty By Deatra Sullivan-Morgan Chapter 15. Lesbian Comics:
Negotiating Queer Visibility By Theresa Carilli