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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2015: Gender Relations in Television Fiction

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2015), 526 pp.

"In 2014, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia and Argentina, in that order, were the top five countries in the production of national fiction hours. Once again, Brazil and Mexico, despite the drop suffered by the latter, continued to be the largest producers of fiction in the Ibero-American region. I ... more

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Zwischen Hollywood und Bollywood: Das Autorenkino Mira Nairs

Lisa Marie Gadatsch

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 520 pp.

"Lisa Marie Gadatsch liefert mit dieser Künstlermonographie eine erste umfassende Studie des filmischen Gesamtwerks der indisch-amerikanischen Regisseurin Mira Nair. Nairs Filme changieren zwischen Arthousekino, Hollywood und Weltkino und reflektieren den vielschichtigen kulturellen Hintergrund der ... more

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How to Manage Gender-Responsive Evaluation: Evaluation Handbook

New York: UN Women (2015), iii, 162 pp.

"This Evaluation Handbook is a practical handbook to help those initiating, managing and/or using gender-responsive evaluations by providing direction, advice and tools for every step in the evaluation process: planning, preparation, conduct, reporting, evaluation use and follow up. The primary audi ... more

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Censored Gender: Women’s Right to Freedom of Expression and Information in Myanmar

Yin Yadanar Thein et al.

London: Article 19 (2015), 91 pp.

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The Risks of Instrumentalizing the Narrative on Sexual Violence in the DRC: Neglected Needs and Unintended Consequences

Laura Heaton

International Review of the Red Cross, volume 96, issue 894 (2015), pp. 625-639

"Public understanding of humanitarian emergencies tends to focus on one story and one type of victim. Examples are manifold: amputees in Sierra Leone, victims of kidnapping in Colombia, or victims of chemical weapons in Syria. At times, the aid community, and the media in turn, seizes upon a particu ... more

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Cómo gestionar evaluaciones con enfoque de género: Manual de evaluación

Sabrina Evangelista, Messay Tassew (coord.)

New York: ONU Mujeres (2015), iii, 168 pp.

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender

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

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 670 pp.

"The 59 chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research. The Companion includes the following features: With each chapter addressing a distinct, con ... more

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Women as Radio Audiences in Africa

Tanja Bosch

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender

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

London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 514-522

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From Public Service Broadcaster to Development Actor: Deutsche Welle and the (con)quest of African Female Audiences

Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 3 (2015), pp. 382-399

"This article examines German public service broadcasting and its message for African female audiences. It situates the activities of Deutsche Welle (DW) within public diplomacy theory and analyses the content of DW's Learning by Ear series, which is geared towards young African women. The article i ... more

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The Role of Community Radio in Empowering Women in India

Yalala Nirmala

Media Asia, volume 42, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 41-46

"Community radio is a third tier broadcasting along with public and private radio broadcasting. Community radio is managed, run, controlled and owned by a community for the benefit of the community and serves the needs, interests and aspirations of a community. CR (Community Radio) gives marginalise ... more

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Community Radio and Empowerment of Women Among Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya

Hezron Mogambi, Abiya P. Ochola

Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, volume 5, issue 4 (2015), pp. 29-63

"This paper focuses on the contribution of a community radio (Serian Radio) to community empowerment of women among pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 4 divisions for the study. Data was gathered to determine the extent to which women parti ... 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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Women’s Participation in Community Radio in Bangladesh

Mahuda Anwar

Guelph: Guelph University, Master Thesis (2015), 99 pp.

"This study is about women‘s engagement in community radio (CR) in Bangladesh which is a relatively new innovation in the country. The thesis seeks to describe the current situation of how CR facilitates women‘s access to and participation in media content, organizational structure, and media fa ... more

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Gendering the Arab Spring: Arab women journalists/activists, "cyberfeminism," and the sociopolitical revolution

Sahar Khamis

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender

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

London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 565-575

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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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Gender Divides and African Journalism Practice

H. Leslie Steeves, Irene Awino

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 84-92

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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

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Participatory Visual Research with Subsistence Farmers in Papua New Guinea

Katja Mikhailovich, Barbara Pamphilon, Barbara Chambers

Development in Practice, volume 25, issue 7 (2015), pp. 997-1010

"This article discusses the trial of visual research methods in a socio-economic research and development project with women subsistence farmers and their families in two regions of Papua New Guinea. It reports on the benefits and challenges of three visual research methods (drawing, participatory p ... more

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Connected Women: Mobile Skills Toolkit

GSMA (2015), 39 pp.

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Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

Patricia White

Durham: Duke University Press (2015), ix, 270 pp.