Feminist Interventions in International Communication

Minding the Gap

Contributions by Salam Al-Mahadin, Alison Beale Simon Fraser University, Barbara Crow, Sheryl Cunningham, Margaret Gallagher, C Anthony Giffard, Ursula Huws Analytica Social and Econ, Yasmin Jiwani, Patricia Made, Catherine McKercher, Lisa McLaughlin, Vincent Mosco Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen's University, Danielle Newton, Kiran Prasad, Jayne Rodgers, Kim Sawchuk, Zeenia Shaukut, Andrew Stevens, Nancy Van Leuven, Gillian Youngs Edited by Katharine Sarikakis, Leslie Regan Shade

Publication date:

05 October 2007

Length of book:

346 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x161mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742553040

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.

Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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

When feminist categories of analysis are brought to bear on the world of the new information technologies the result can be exciting and unfamiliar. Sarikakis and Shade have brought together a highly diverse group of such scholars and given us one of themore extraordinary texts I have seen on the new technologies. Together these authors open up the field with their original studies and deborder established propositions with gusto and brio....