Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media

Global Diversities

Angharad N. Valdivia

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1995
• Print ISBN:
  9780803957756
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781452247175
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This groundbreaking collection explores the intersecting variables of groups marginalized by the media. Contributors examine gender, race, class, sexual orientation, geography, and ethnicity in relation to feminist multicultural issues. . . . Highly recommended for students of feminism, multiculturalism, cultural studies, communication theory, and media analysis. --Choice "Most of the world?s women experience multiple forms of oppression, yet few communication scholars have prioritized this profound reality. Professor Valdivia?s collection examining feminism, multiculturalism, and the media is a welcome text for courses on women, minorities, and communication, plus an excellent resource for many other courses concerned with issues of diversity." --H. Leslie Steeves, University of Oregon "Many contributors illustrate contradictions in multicultural and feminist media perspectives. These embrace more than feminist analysis: They illustrate how gender, race, class, and ethnicity affect media coverage and reception, providing theoretical approaches to analyzing media coverage." --The Bookwatch The multiplicity of voices in this volume illustrates the contradictions inherent in multicultural and feminist perspectives on the media. Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media breaks new ground by exploring intersecting variables of oppression, from the personal to the political. The volume begins with feminist analyses but uncovers marginalized "others" in every area. These compelling case studies illustrate how issues of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, global origin, and ethnicity affect the coverage, portrayal, media production, and reception of every human being. The chapters present theoretical perspectives, provide examples of methodologies, focus on topics of current interest and global relevance, and represent a variety of media. An essential addition for any individual or classroom interested in critical perspectives on media, especially for courses on women in the media and minorities and the media.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Part I - The Production of Interventions
• Chapter 1 - Feminist Media Studies in a Global Setting: Beyond Binary Contradictions and into Multicultural Spectrums
• Chapter 2 - Living Theory through Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in the Everyday Life of a Graduate Student
• Chapter 3 - Three Women, a Mouse, a Microphone, and a Telephone: Information (Mis) Management During the Mohawk/Canadian Governments' Conflict of 1990
• Chapter 4 - Representing Ourselves: Films and Videos by Asian American/Canadian Women
• Chapter 5 - News, Consciousness, and Social Participation: The Role of Women's Feature Service in World News
• Part II - (Con)Textual Analyses
• Chapter 6 - Lesbian Chic: Our Fifteen Minutes of Celebrity?
• Chapter 7 - News Coverage of Ethnic and Gender Issues in the Big Dan's Rape Case
• Chapter 8 - Missing Persons: Working-Class Women and the Movies, 1940-1990
• Chapter 9 - Advertising and Mother Nature
• Chapter 10 - The "Abortion Clause" in U.S. Foreign Population Policy: The Debate Viewed through a Postcolonial Feminist Lens
• Part III - Combining Methodologies and Narratives
• Chapter 11 - Orientalization of an "Almost White" Woman: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Interlocking Effects of Race, Class Gender, and Ethnicity in American Mass Media: the Case of the Missing jewish woman
• Chapter 12 - Watching Tongues Untie(d) While Reading Zami: Mapping Boundaries in Black Gay and Lesbian Narratives
• Chapter 13 - African American Women between Hopscotch and Hip-Hop: "Must be the Music (That's Turnin' Me on)"
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• About the Contributors