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The Cost of Business: Gender Dynamics of Media Labor in Afghanistan

Matt Sienkiewicz

In: Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor

Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson (eds.)

University of California Press (2016), pp. 104-117

"In this chapter I have strived to move beyond the simple neoliberal critique, attempting to consider more closely the specific, concrete impact of American policies on the work of female Afghan media workers. It would be foolish and dishonest to deny that the American-imposed system of media that c ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender

Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelaca, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 492 pp.

"The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film, and female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The boo ... more

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Mobilização das mulheres em enunciados de jornais brasileiros (1979-1988)

Cynthia Mara Miranda

Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2016), 88 pp.

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Chile: Female Journalists Without Access to Power

Claudia Lagos, Claudia Mellado

In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), pp. 226-237

"In March 2006, socialist politician Michelle Bachelet became not only the first woman to assume the presidency of Chile, but also the first female president in South America. Bachelet appointed a cabinet with an equal number of men and women. Although there were several other changes to her cabinet ... more

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Women in war: Challenges and possibilities for female journalists covering wars and conflicts

Kristin Skare Orgeret

In: Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age

Ulla Carlsson (ed.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 165-176

"The chapter takes as its starting point the notion that journalists’ safety is a precondition for free expression and free media. Based on interviews and discussions with experienced female war and conflict journalists from seven countries worldwide, the discussion evolves around questions linked ... more

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Mexico: Structural Challenges for Women in News Media

Aimée Vega Montiel, Patricia Ramírez Ortega

In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), pp. 284-300

"This chapter will analyze women’s access to and participation in Mexico’s news media. At the intersections of feminism and the political economy of communication, we will put into context the findings for Mexico in the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media (Global Report) (Byer ... more

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Block Her Entry, Keep Her Down and Push Her Out: Gender Discrimination and Women Journalists in the Arab World

Jad P. Melki, Sarah E. Mallat

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2016), pp. 57-79

"This study examines why female journalists in an Arab country continue to be marginalized. It hypothesized that a set of interrelated factors, pertaining to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and the lack of a legally and socially enabling environment, work together to systematically discour ... more

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A Divine Cosmopolitism? Religion, Media and Imagination in a Socially Divided Cairo

Heba Elsayed

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-63

"With a focus on young Egyptian women, this article explores the different ways it becomes possible to reconcile a Muslim identity with a cosmopolitan openness towards the world. Informed primarily by transnational television, these women articulate a divine cosmopolitan imagination through which th ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

New York: Wiley (2016), xv, 176 pp.

"This book contains a collection of analytical reports by freelance journalists and other experts who have an inside view of global media conditions and anti-press violations related to gender, including digital harassment, discrimination, restricted access to newsmakers, imprisonment, and physical ... more

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Khel Badal: Dismantle Patriarchy. Community Video Production

Khel Badal

Video Volunteers (2016), 54 pp.

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Análise de género na mídia moçambicana 2015

Maputo: IREX (2016), 32 pp.

"Desde a sua criação em 2012, o Programa Para Fortalecimento da Mídia (MSP) documenta anualmente a cobertura das temáticas relacionadas com Género, Violência Baseada no Género (VBG) e Tráfi co de Pessoas, na mídia moçambicana. Os dados colhidos ao longo destes anos mostram que estas quest� ... more

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Offenes Ohr und starke Stimme

Sebastian Drescher

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2016), pp. 56-57

"Junge Frauen machen in Irakisch-Kurdistan ein Radioprogramm für Flüchtlinge. Tabuthemen kennen sie keine - Tratsch und Klatsch kommen auch nicht zu kurz." (Seite 56)

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What Your Audience Needs to Know in an Emergency: Life-Saving Information. Topic-By-Topic Guide to Core Humanitarian Issues

London: BBC Media Action (2016), various pag.

"These guides are for media professionals working to help audiences affected by humanitarian crises. They give a brief overview of common humanitarian issues in emergencies. They will help you: understand what kinds of problems your audiences are likely to be facing in emergencies; work alongside re ... more

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Society's Emerging Feminities: Neoliberal, Postfeminist, and Hybrid Identities on Television in South Africa

Shelley-Jean Bradfield

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender

Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 280-289

"With its emphasis on the lives and interests of upper-middle-class women who live out the success of the African dream, 'Society' [a miniseries aired in 2007 on SABC television channel] has been compared to the HBO drama 'Sex and the City' (1998-2004), with its portrayal of conspicious consumption ... more

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Violations Against Female Journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Ghazi Bani Odeh

Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2015), 25 pp.

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Between Legitimacy and Political Efficacy: Feminist Counter-Publics and the Internet in China

Iam-Chong Ip, Oi-Wan Lam

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender

Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 245-256

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Mobile Value-Added Services and the Economic Empowerment of Women: The Case of Usaha Wanita in Indonesia

Tian Cai, Han Ei Chew, Mark R. Levy

Mobile Media & Communication, volume 3, issue 2 (2015), pp. 267-285

"Mobile value-added services (MVAS) represent a growing collaboration between the private sector and the development community. In this paper, we examine one such MVAS, the Nokia Usaha Wanita service running on the Nokia Life+ platform in Indonesia, and we assess its impact as an innovative means fo ... more

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A guide for strengthening gender equality and inclusiveness in teaching and learning materials

Jennae Bulat, Michelle Lapp

Washington, DC: USAID (2015), IV, 28 pp.

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Gaze Regimes: Film and Feminisms in Africa

Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann (eds.)

Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2015), xxxiv, 229 pp.

"Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of ... more

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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

Katrien Pype

New York: Berghahn, paperback ed. (2015), xvii, 331 pp.

"How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion ... more