edited by Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston, and Stuart Allan.
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New York :
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Routledge,
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1998.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xi, 298 pages)
GENERAL NOTES
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Rev. papers of a symposium.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part II. The gendered realities of news. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner -- Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley -- "Mad cows and Englishmen" : gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis / Rod Brookes and Beverley Holbrook -- The gender-politics of news production : silenced voices and false memories / Jenny Kitzinger -- Gender and the agenda : news reporting of child sexual abuse / Paula Skidmore -- When the "extraordinary" becomes "ordinary" : everyday news of sexual violence / Cynthia Carter -- A family affair : the British press, sex and the Wests / Maggie Wykes -- Crimewatch UK : keeping women off the streets / C. Kay Weaver.
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Setting new(s) agendas : an introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan. Part I. The gender politics of journalism. The politics of the smile : "soft news" and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland -- One of the girls? : the changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen -- Juvenation : news, girls and power / John Hartley -- Gender, privacy and publicity in "media event space" / Lisa McLaughlin -- "Mrs Knight must be balanced" : methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim -- Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald -- (En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book addresses the questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism, and draws on feminist theory and gender-sensitive critiques to explore the interconnections between news, gender and power.