Journalism, Gender and Power
Journalism, Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored in the 1998 edited collection News, Gender and Power. It takes stock of progress made to date, and also breaks ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism and current democratic cultures.
This new volume develops research insights into issues such as the influence of media ownership and control on sexism, womens employment and macho news cultures, the gendering of objectivity and impartiality, tensions around the professional identities of journalists, news coverage of violence against women, the sexualization of women in the news, the everyday experience of normative hierarchies and biases in newswork, and the gendering of news audience expectations, amongst other issues.
These issues prompt vital questions for feminist and gender-centred explorations concerned with reimagining journalism in the public interest. Contributors to this volume challenge familiar perspectives, and in so doing, extend current parameters of dialogue and debate in fresh directions relevant to the increasingly digitalized, interactive intersections of journalism with gender and power around the globe.
Journalism, Gender and Power will inspire readers to rethink conventional assumptions around gender in news reportingconceptual, professional, and strategicwith an eye to forging alternative, progressive ways forward.
Cynthia Carter is Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on children, news, and citizenship; feminist news and journalism studies; and media violence. Her recent books include Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies (2013) and the Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (2014). She is a founding Co-Editor of Feminist Media Studies and serves on the editorial board of numerous media and communication studies journals.
Linda Steiner is Professor in the College of Journalism, University of Maryland, USA, and Editor of Journalism & Communication Monographs. Recent co-authored or co-edited books include: Key Concepts in Critical-Cultural Studies (2010), Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (2013), The Handbook of Gender and War (2016), and Race, News, and the City: Uncovering Baltimore (2017). She has published over 100 book chapters and refereed journal articles.
Stuart Allan is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. His publications include Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in Times of Crisis (2013) and the edited collections, The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (revised edition, 2012) and Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity (2017). He is currently researching the visual cultures of news imagery in war, conflict, and crisis reporting, amongst other projects.
Journalism, Gender and Power
Edited by Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Stuart Allan
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Names: Carter, Cynthia, 1959 editor. | Steiner, Linda, editor. | Allan, Stuart, 1962 editor.
Title: Journalism, gender and power / edited by Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Stuart Allan.
Description: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018048103 | ISBN 9781138895324 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138895362 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315179520 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women in journalism. | Women in the mass media industry. | Women and journalism. | WomenPress coverage.
Classification: LCC PN4784.W7 J68 2019 | DDC 070.4082dc23
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Contents
Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, and Stuart Allan
Karen Ross and Claudia Padovani
Nikki Usher
Jad Melki and Sarah Mallat
Suzanne Franks and Lis Howell
April Newton and Linda Steiner
Carolyn M. Byerly and Sharifa Simon-Roberts
Rosalind Gill and Katie Toms
Jamie C. Capuzza
David Rowe
Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston
Nicky Falkof
Patricia Holland
Sahana Udupa
Beverly M. Weber
Allissa V. Richardson
Cynthia Carter
Sahar Khamis
Noha Mellor
Haiyan Wang
Catharine Lumby
Stuart Allan
Isabel Molina-Guzmn
Erika Falk
Paul Baker and Helen Baker
Stuart Allan is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. His publications include Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in Times of Crisis (2013) and the edited collections, The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (revised edition, 2012) and Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity (2017). He is currently researching the visual cultures of news imagery in war, conflict, and crisis reporting, amongst other projects.
Helen Baker is Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, UK. She has published research on tsarist Russia and, more recently, has focused on the benefits of using large corpora in the study of the past, particularly in order to explore the ways in which marginalized people were perceived in early modern public discourse.
Paul Baker is Professor of English Language, Lancaster University, UK. His research involves applying corpus linguistic methods to carry out discourse analysis and examine linguistic representations of identities. His books include