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Challenging images of women in the media : reinventing women's lives /

Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women's Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. With a global focus, this collection scrutinizes issues of race...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carilli, Theresa, Campbell, Jane, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Feeling good never looked better: examining stereotypical representations of women in Special K advertisements / Vanessa Reimer, Rukhsana Ahmed
  • Tales from the Ooku: the shogun's inner palace and the outer (mediated) world / Kimiko Akita
  • Pakistani media and disempowerment of women / Saman Talib, Zara Idrees
  • Women in film: treading water but fit for the marathon / Lisa French
  • Mass media explain the global sex trade / Anne Johnston, Barbara Friedman, Autumn Shafer
  • Gendered construction of HPV: a post-structuralist critique of Gardasil / Nicole Defenbaugh, Kimberly N. Kline
  • Who's afraid of the Pink Chaddi?: new media, Hindutva, and feminist agency in India / Saayan Chattopadhyay
  • Women of China magazine: the "modern" woman in a discourse of consumerism / Wei Luo
  • From "babushki" to "sexy babes": the sexing-up of Bulgarian women in advertising / Elza Ibroscheva
  • For and about women: Dorothy Jurney and "the Woman's Network" / Steven Carl Smith
  • Angela Merkel has more to offer: satirical images of Germany's first female chancellor / Lynn Marie Kutch
  • All hail the queen: the metamorphosis or selling out of Queen Latifah / Elizabeth Johnson
  • 18,000,000 cracks or how Hillary almost became president / Lori L. Montalbano
  • Big, black, boisterous badasses: why queen-sized African American women are never really royalty / Deatra Sullivan-Morgan
  • Lesbian comics: negotiating queer visibility / Theresa Carilli.