ABSTRACT
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, women’s 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 reporting—conceptual, professional, and strategic—with an eye to forging alternative, progressive ways forward.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|93 pages
The gendered politics of news production
chapter 2|15 pages
Women and technology in the newsroom
chapter 3|16 pages
When Arab women (and men) speak
part II|108 pages
News discourses, sexualization, and sexual violence
chapter 11|15 pages
Patriarchy and power in the South African news
part III|92 pages
Engendering news audiences and activism
chapter 17|14 pages
Mediated, gendered activism in the “post-Arab Spring” era
part IV|88 pages
Politics and identities in the news