| Description |
xii, 319 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318). |
| Contents |
Media images/feminist issues / Deborah L. Rhode -- Hate radio : why we need to tune in to Limbaugh and Stern / Patricia J. Williams -- The making of a "quota queen" : news media and the bias of objectivity / Laurel Leff -- The real Real Anita Hill, or the making of a backlash best-seller / Mary Coombs -- Fear of feminism : media stories of feminist victims and victims of feminism on college campuses / Martha T. McCluskey -- Glamour law : feminism through the looking glass of popular women's magazines / Julia E. Hanigsberg -- The movie of the week : law, narrativity, and gender on prime time / Elayne Rapping -- Rape on soaps : the legal angle / Dianne L. Brooks -- Pop justice : TV, motherhood, and the law / Isabel Karpin -- Law and racial reelism : Black women as celluloid "legal" heroines / Margaret M. Russell -- Women on trial : the female lawyer in the Hollywood courtroom / Cynthia Lucia -- Law, cultural media[tion], and desire in the lives of adolescent girls / Tracey E. Higgins & Deborah L. Tolman -- The politics of surrogacy narratives / E. Ann Kaplan -- "Bad mothers" and welfare reform in Massachusetts : the case of Claribel Ventura / Marie Ashe -- Spectacles of the strange : envisioning violence in the Central Park jogger trial / Kristin Bumiller -- Introduction : the seens and unseens of popular cultural representation / Lynn S. Chancer -- Crime news, crime fear, and women's everyday lives / Kathleen Daly & Amy Chasteen -- Lesbians, prostitutes, and murder : media constructs violence constructs power / Ann Russo -- Blindfolded : rape and the press's fear of feminism / Helen Benedict -- Race under construction : the master narrative of white supremacy in the media representation of African American/Korean American conflict / Lisa C. Ikemoto. |
| Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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United States. |
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Sex and law -- United States.
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Sex and law. |
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Women in mass media.
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Women in mass media. |
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Sexism in mass media.
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Sexism in mass media. |
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Feminism -- United States.
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Feminism. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Fineman, Martha.
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McCluskey, Martha T.
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| ISBN |
0195096282 |
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0195096290 alkaline paper |
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