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. This in-depth study shows how mixed messages from the media muddle attempts at breaking the "glass screen," causing women to constantly question their role in global culture. With cake ads followed by diet commercials, the media’s depiction of women is both confusing and contradictory. While more and more women have begun to contribute to the media as respected anchors, talk show hosts, and commentators, these portrayals are often counteracted by music videos and reality television shows such as Jersey Shore. This collection seeks to analyze these depictions and their effects on women and culture. The contributors to this anthology hail from such diverse locations as Japan, Australia, Pakistan, India, China, Bulgaria, and the United States. With this global focus, Challenging Images of Women in the Media scrutinizes issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality through a study of gendered media portrayals. By challenging the status quo of media images, the contributors to this essential volume invite a dialogue about women’s lives.

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