Journalism, Gender and Power

by StuartAllan (Editor), Cynthia Carter (Editor), Linda Steiner (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2019

  $38.77

  Journalism, Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored in the 1998 edited collection News, Gender and Power. It takes stock of progress made to date, and also breaks ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism and current democratic cultures.

  This new volume develops research insights into issues such as the influence of media ownership and control on sexism, women's employment and `macho' news cultures, the gendering of objectivity and impartiality, tensions around the professional identities of journalists, news coverage of violence against women, the sexualization of women in the news, the everyday experience of normative hierachies and biases in newswork, and the gendering of news audience expectations, amongst other issues.

  These issues prompt vital questions for feminist and gender-centred explorations concerned with re-imagining journalism in the public interest. Contributors to this volume challenge familiar perspectives, and in so doing, extend current parameters of dialogue and debate in fresh directions relevant to the increasingly digitalized, interactive intersections of journalism with gender and power around the globe.

  Journalism, Gender and Power will inspire readers to rethink conventional assumptions around gender in news reporting - conceptual, professional and strategic - with an eye to forging alternative, progressive ways forward.