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1 online resource |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Feeling good never looked better: examining stereotypical representations of women in Special K advertisements / Vanessa Reimer, Rukhsana Ahmed -- Tales from the Ooku: the shogun's inner palace and the outer (mediated) world / Kimiko Akita -- Pakistani media and disempowerment of women / Saman Talib, Zara Idrees -- Women in film: treading water but fit for the marathon / Lisa French -- Mass media explain the global sex trade / Anne Johnston, Barbara Friedman, Autumn Shafer -- Gendered construction of HPV: a post-structuralist critique of Gardasil / Nicole Defenbaugh, Kimberly N. Kline -- Who's afraid of the Pink Chaddi?: new media, Hindutva, and feminist agency in India / Saayan Chattopadhyay -- Women of China magazine: the "modern" woman in a discourse of consumerism / Wei Luo -- From "babushki" to "sexy babes": the sexing-up of Bulgarian women in advertising / Elza Ibroscheva -- For and about women: Dorothy Jurney and "the Woman's Network" / Steven Carl Smith -- Angela Merkel has more to offer: satirical images of Germany's first female chancellor / Lynn Marie Kutch -- All hail the queen: the metamorphosis or selling out of Queen Latifah / Elizabeth Johnson -- 18,000,000 cracks or how Hillary almost became president / Lori L. Montalbano -- Big, black, boisterous badasses: why queen-sized African American women are never really royalty / Deatra Sullivan-Morgan -- Lesbian comics: negotiating queer visibility / Theresa Carilli. |
| Summary |
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 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women in mass media.
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Women in mass media. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Carilli, Theresa.
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Campbell, Jane, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Challenging images of women in the media. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012 (DLC) 2012017611 |
| ISBN |
9780739176993 (electronic book) |
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0739176994 (electronic book) |
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9780739176986 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739176986 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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