Byerly, Carolyn M.

Women & media : a critical introduction / Women and media Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2006. - vii, 293 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-272) and index.

1. Introduction -- Part I: Research on women and media: a short history - 2. Women in/as entertainment - 3. Images of women in news and magazines - 4. Women as audience - 5. Women and production: gender and the political economy of media industries -- Part II: Women, media, and the public sphere: shifting the agenda - 6. Toward a model of women's media action - 7. First path: politics to media - 8. Second path: media profession to politics - 9. Third path: advocate change agent - 10. Fourth path: women's media enterprises - 11. Conclusion - Bibliography - Appendix: research participants - Name index - Subject index.

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Women in the mass media industry.
Women in mass media.
Mass media and women.

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