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Media and Gender: A Scholarly Agenda for the Global Alliance on Media and Gender

Paris: UNESCO;International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (2014), 94 pp.

ISBN 978-92-3-100029-4

CC BY-SA

Feminist scholarship and the debates on gender and communication / Margaret Gallagher, 11
I. VIOLENCE OF GENDER, MEDIA AND INFORMATION
Violence against women and media: advancements and challenges of a research and political agenda / Aimée Vega Montiel, 15
Sex trafficking in mass media: gender, power and personal economies / Barbara Ann Barnett, 20
Hegemonic masculinity in media contents / Peter J. Kareithi, 26
Violence against women journalists / Annabelle Sreberny, 29
II. WOMEN'S ACCESS TO MEDIA AND INFORMATION
The long struggle of women in news / Carolyn Byerly, 34
Women in decision-making structures in media / Karen Ross, 37
Gender and newsroom cultures / Marjan de Bruin, 41
Scheherezades: a thousand and one stories of women in community radio / María Eugenia Chávez, 47
Women's access to ICTs in the information society / Cecilia Castaño Collado, 50
III. GENDER MEDIA POLICY AND STRATEGIES
Gaps in media and communication governance: towards a gender-aware research and advocacy agenda / Claudia Padovani, 55
Action, reaction, introspection, rectification / Ammu Joseph, 62
Power, patriarchy, profit: barriers to gender mainstreaming in media policy / Katharine Sarikakis, 66
IV. GENDER, EDUCATION AND MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY
Gender mainstreaming in journalism education / Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, 70
Educating media professionals with a gender and critical media literacy perspective: how to battle gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the media workplace / Jad Melki & May Farah, 74
Enlisting media and informational literacy for gender equality and women's empowerment / Alton Grizzle, 79