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Handbuch Zeitschriftenforschung
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 627 pp.
"Wie werden Gesellschaften in Zeitschriften betrachtet und welche Übersetzungsleistungen bieten jene in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Kontexten? Um diesen Fragen nachzugehen, analysieren die Beiträger*innen des Bandes das Zusammenspiel von Textgestaltung, Design, Inhalten, Infrastrukturen u
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 590 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa stands as an authoritative and up-to-date resource on the critical debates, research methods and ongoing reflections on how gender and communication intersect with the economic, social, political, and cultu
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Ageing and the Media: International Perspectives
Bristol: Policy Press (2022), 234 pp.
"Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensions
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"The Woman You Want to Be": The Changing Face of Fairlady Magazine, 1985–2005
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 115-140
"Feminine identity has always been complicated by race and class in South Africa. The history of beauty pageants, like sporting contests, demonstrates the extent to which culture and contemporary politics intertwine. Examining the cover model choices of women’s magazines offers a fruitful means of
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric
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Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity
New York; London: Routledge (2010), xii, 251 pp.
Fair Lady: Effective Coverage of Politics in a Women’s Magazine
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2010), pp. 163-185
"The article discusses the coverage of politics in South African women’s magazine Fair Lady in selected years from democratisation in 1994 to ten years later in 2004. In a democracy, the media has the explicit duty to inform society. Within this context three questions are asked: (1) Which politic
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Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-Expression
London; New York: Tauris (2004), viii, 248 pp.
"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women fil
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Critical Readings: Media and Gender
Maidenhead: Open University Press (2004), 366 pp.
"How is gender constructed in the media? To what extent do portrayals of gender influence everyday perceptions of ourselves and our actions? In what ways do the media reinforce and sometimes challenge gender inequalities? Critical Readings: Media and Gender provides a lively and engaging introductio
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Making her Up: Women's Magazines in Slovenia
Ljubljana: Peace Institute (2002), 135 pp.
"In Making Her Up, the authors try to elucidate the precise ambivalence of the image of the modern woman, which is (un)wittingly created by the producers of women’s magazines in co-operation with capitalistic advertising mechanisms and, not least, their own readers. Through the discourse and conte
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Journalistinnen im Tschador: Frauen und gesellschaftlicher Aufbruch im Iran
Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel (2001), 191 pp.
Fempress: A communication strategy for women
Gender & Development, volume 3, issue 1 (1995), pp. 51-55
"Fempress was founded in 1981, in Mexico, by two Chi lean women living in exile who were passionately convinced that the media are powerful tools to challenge culturally-rooted social injustice. We felt that the people fighting to overturn the legendary culture of machismo in Lat in America needed a
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Frauenprobleme in Tunesiens Presse und Rundfunk: Heranführung der Frauen an das neue Leben
Die Feder (Stuttgart), issue 1 (1962), p. 6
"Die Frauenpresse seit 1959 will der jüngeren Generation helfen, sich an das moderne Leben anzupassen: Berichte über Berufe, innen- und außenpolitische Probleme, Emanzipation. Seit 1950 gibt es eine Monatszeitschrift der Frauenverbände für Leserinnen, die noch nicht lesen und schreiben können.
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