Women and Mass Communications in the 1990's [antikvár]

Preface In the predecessor volume to this book, Women and Mass Communications: An International Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991), I elaborated on the omission of women from the printed discourse in mass communications studies well into the 1970s, and the progress made to redress that neglect since then. In the 1990s, women figure even more frequently and prominently in mass communieation literature, with book series, special issues of journals, and sections of academic conferences devoted to their advancements and sometimes to lingering problems of discrimination and stereotyping. Women and Mass Communications in the 1990s: An International, Annotated Bibliography follows the pattern of the earlier bibliography in that it is an international survey of all types of literature on women and mass communications for the 1990s. Included are all mass média, such as publishing, radio, television, film, magazines, newspapers, videó, and computerized systems, and affiliates, such as advertising, public relations, and wire services. Omitted are speech communication, language and communication, and interpersonal communication, except for the few items that relate specifically to mass média. The book is organized by continents and regions: Africa and the Middle East; Asia, Australia, and Oceania; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; and North America. An attempt has been made to include items on a wide rangé of countries, and this has meant including somé "fugitive" and ephemeral items if not much else has been written about a country's média and women. The first chapter takes a global perspective and subsumes comparative analyses, non-country specific material, special issues of joumals, long-run representations of journals' contents, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. Topically, all chapters are divided into generál studies, historical studies, images of women, women as audience, women practitioners, and women's média. The "images of women" category encompasses sex roles; sex stereotyping; representation, portrayal, and coverage of women in média; and pornography. The "women practitioners" category includes women working in mass média - their experiences, anecdotes, successes, and struggles for job equality. Categories under the much larger United States section were expanded to include advertising and public relations, broadcasting, film, and print média under each of the six main topics.