Feminist Interventions in International Communication

Minding the Gap

Edited by Katharine Sarikakis, Leslie Regan Shade

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Publication date:

05 October 2007

Length of book:

346 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742579927

This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the general state of international communications, the book uses feminist political-economic and policy analyses to explore the globalization of media industries, including questions about women's employment and media content that is globally produced and consumed. A top-notch group of authors covers cases on online news, pornography and explicit material, political participation and democracy, policies for women's development, violence against women, labor practices and information workers, print media and publishing, public 'telecentres,' media coverage of HIV/AIDS, and more. Providing fresh feminist insights into international communication, this essential book shows the important strides taken toward women's justice in these areas and how far there is yet to go.

Chapter 1 I: REVISITING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES
Chapter 2 1 Revisiting International Communication: Approach of the Curious Feminist
Chapter 3 2 Feminist Issues and the Global Media System
Chapter 4 3 Public/Private: The Hidden Dimension of International Communications
Chapter 5 4 Women, Participation and Democracy in the Information Society
Chapter 6 II: GENDERING POLICY REGIMES
Chapter 7 5 The Expediency of Women
Chapter 8 6 Gender Sensitive Communications Policies for Women's Development: Issues and Challenges
Chapter 9 7 The Spectral Politics of Mobile Communication Technologies: A Feminist Analysis of International Policies
Chapter 10 8 The Global Structures and Cultures of Pornography: The Global Brothel
Chapter 11 III: MEDIATING MEANINGS-MEDIATING REGIMES OF POWER
Chapter 12 9 Mediations of Domination: Gendered Violence Within and Across Borders
Chapter 13 10 From Religious Fundamentalism to Pornography? The Female Body as Text in Arabic Song Video
Chapter 14 11 Female Faces in the Millennium Development Goals: Reflections in the Mirrors of Media
Chapter 15 12 Deadly Synergies: Gender Inequality, HIV/AIDs, and the Media
Chapter 16 13 Online News: Setting New Gender Agendas
Chapter 17 IV: LABOURING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
Chapter 18 14 Convergences: Elements of a Feminist Political Economy of Labor and Communication
Chapter 19 15 Women, Information Work, and the Corporatization of Development
Chapter 20 16 Empire and Sweatshop Girlhoods: The Two Faces of the Global Culture Industry
Chapter 21 V GLOCALIZING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 22 17 Feminist Print Cultures in the Digital Era
Chapter 23 18 Communication and Women in Eastern Europe: Challenges in Reshaping the Democratic Sphere
Chapter 24 19 GodZone? NZ's Classification of Explicit Material in an Era of Global Fundamentalism
Chapter 25 20 Grounding Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) for Telecenters: The Experiences of Ecuador and the Philippines

International communication research has badly needed a collection such as this one for a very long time. If any book is likely to give the field a much-needed shot in the arm, this is it. The variety of its contents and the freshness of the analyses aregenuinely stimulating. It will probably set off new research initiatives globally....