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Feminist Interventions in International Communication: Minding the Gap
Author(s): Katharine Sarikakis (Editor), Leslie Regan Shade
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 346 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742553043
- ISBN-13: 9780742553040
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
International communication research has badly needed a collection such as this one for a very long time. If any book is likely to give the field a much-needed shot in the arm, this is it. The variety of its contents and the freshness of the analyses are genuinely stimulating. It will probably set off new research initiatives globally. — John Downing, Southern Illinois University
This text provides a useful review of the literature about gender differences in news consumption. — Debra Merskin, University of Oregon
Feminist Interventions in International Communication is exactly what we all need right now. Together, these smart editors and authors reveal the connections between media”s representation of women, women as workers in this burgeoning industry, and the structural trends of global media. They show us all what a feminist curiosity about global media can reveal. — Cynthia Enloe, Clark University; author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire
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 the more extraordinary texts I have seen on the new technologies. Together these authors open up the field with their original studies and deborder established propositionswith gusto and brio. — Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City
About the Author
Katharine Sarikakis is senior lecturer in communications policy and director of the Centre for International Communications Research at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. She is the author of Powers in Media Policy (Peter Lang 2004) and British Media in a Global Era (Arnold 2004), co-author of Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press 2006), and the co-editor of Ideologies of the Internet (Hampton Press 2006).
Leslie Regan Shade is associate professor at Concordia University’s Department of Communication Studies in Montreal. She is the author of Gender and the Social Construction of the Internet (Peter Lang 2002), co-editor of Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Nelson Thomson 2006), and co-editor of the Communications in the Public Interest series published by the Canadian Centre on Policy Alternatives.
