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. The book provides an overview of the key issues and developments in feminist media critiques and interventions over the last 30 years, beginning with the extant literature in this growing field and ending with a new study of women's media activism in 20 nations. The authors recount and analyze the first-hand narratives of nearly 100 women media activists whose work has contributed to the making of a feminist public sphere that has moved women leaders and agendas more forcefully into their societies. This highly original empirical base, and the Model of Women's Media Action that the authors developed from it, provides a unique account of women's struggles to improve, create, and otherwise employ media in pushing for social change. The text is written in a concise, engaging style, laying out the central concerns about the women-media relationship as it has operated in a variety of political/critical contexts. It can be used alongside Women and Media: International Perspectives (2004), by the same authors.
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"Byerly and Ross not only advocate but succeed in integratingtheory with empirical data, and may inspire a few readers toundertake their own media action."
Linda Steiner, Rutgers University
"The first comprehensive attempt to theorize women's mediaactivism and its relationship to social change. An inspiringchronicle of feminist interventions in media systems world-wide,and a welcome bridge between scholarship and practice."
Margaret Gallagher, author of Gender Setting: New Agendasfor Media Monitoring and Advocacy
"The essays are forays into areas of media studies whichwill only grow with the growing presence and innovations of womenin this central field of contemporary culture."
Midwest Book Review
"A useful outline of global feminist media scholarship forstudents and practitioners. The book opens up new directions forfuture research, tempering an engagement with historicaldevelopment of women's media activism with attention to the realvoices and experiences of current activists andpractitioners."
Culture and Policy
Linda Steiner, Rutgers University
"The first comprehensive attempt to theorize women's mediaactivism and its relationship to social change. An inspiringchronicle of feminist interventions in media systems world-wide,and a welcome bridge between scholarship and practice."
Margaret Gallagher, author of Gender Setting: New Agendasfor Media Monitoring and Advocacy
"The essays are forays into areas of media studies whichwill only grow with the growing presence and innovations of womenin this central field of contemporary culture."
Midwest Book Review
"A useful outline of global feminist media scholarship forstudents and practitioners. The book opens up new directions forfuture research, tempering an engagement with historicaldevelopment of women's media activism with attention to the realvoices and experiences of current activists andpractitioners."
Culture and Policy