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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds

Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (eds.)

Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.

"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level ... of impact for the communities. Impact was considered across a number of indices. We wanted to show that attitudes have shifted, policies have been rewritten and the life experiences and ranges of possibility for some have changed for the better as a result of women’s work. We hope to show through our stories that film can change lives; that sharing stories matters; and that women are everywhere, using their skills in screen production for the good of many. In her excellent book, Women in the International Film Industry: Policy Practice and Power, Susan Liddy (2020) offers ‘a wide-ranging, critical assessment of practice, policy and progress’ to establish the range and scale of gender inequality that currently exists in the world of screen production. She quotes O’Neill and Domingo (2015) to point out that social, economic and political conditions vary, and ‘combine in different ways to enable or constrain women’s agency and leadership’ in screen production (Liddy 2020: 1). In contrast, our book approaches the same problem from the opposite perspective: we seek to correlate the ‘policy, practice and power’ (Liddy 2020) with the actual work of women screenwriters. Our aim is to point out what women screenwriters, creators and filmmakers are doing in disparate corners of the world, and how their effort is positively impacting communities, shaping culture and creating change. We argue that, despite the fact that women screenwriters are underrepresented in leadership roles in film industries worldwide, the impact of their films remains visible and palpable. We provide evidence that, as women step into the roles of screenwriter, filmmaker and collaborator, using known and emerging technologies, formats and genres under the broad scope of ‘screen production’, they raise the voices of other women and other communities. This volume shows the impact of women’s voices in creating real change for the communities whose stories are told through the topics and themes of these women’s screen works. Not least, this volume seeks to celebrate these women and their communities and bring awareness of that impact to broader communities worldwide." (Introduction, page 1) more

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Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa

Emma Heywood

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 239 pp.

"This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and perception of key themes broadcast by radio and associated with women's empower ... more

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Course on Digital Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs

Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2024), vii, 84 pp.

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A ‘design justice’ approach to developing digital tools for addressing gender-based violence: Exploring the possibilities and limits of feminist chatbots

Nicola Henry, Alice Witt, Stefani Vasil

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 24 pp.

"Digital tools, such as safety apps, reporting portals, and chatbots, are increasingly being used by victim-survivors of gender-based violence to report unlawful activity and access specialized support and information. Despite their limitations, these interventions offer a range of potential benefit ... more

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Asking for solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space

Heba Sigurdardottin, Majid Imani, Zahra Edalati

Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 523-545

"The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim ... more

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Getting There Together: A Synthesis of Inter-Agency Programme Evaluations on SDG 5

Ross Tanner, Carol Boender, Paola Vela

New York: UN Women;UNDP;UNFPA;UNICEF;World Food Programme (WFP) (2024), 32 pp.

"The evaluations point to several dimensions of the strategic significance of joint work. Programmatically, joint programmes enable a more multidimensional and holistic approach to addressing gender inequality. They enhance the catalytic role of the UN by increasing the visibility of and advocacy on ... more

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‘Solidarity Across Borders’: Online gender activism and the construction of a Middle East and North African regional public space

Bronwen Mehta

Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 547-573

"Academic discourse frequently speaks of a gender violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), suggesting a distinctive gender violence that is tied to a geographic location. Within the framework of a digital ethnography, this research examines whether gender activists operating in digital s ... more

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Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives

Tendai Chari, Ufuoma Akpojivi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiii, 257 pp.

"Drawing on a broad range of case studies across the continent, the volume considers what constitutes communication rights in Africa, who should protect them, against whom, and how communication rights relate to broader human rights. While the case studies highlight the variation in communicative ri ... more

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Journalism in the #Meetoo Era

Laurène Daycard

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2024), 39 pp.

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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South

Margit van Wessel, Tiina Kontinen, Justice Nyigmah Bawole (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.

"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci ... more

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Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States

Henriette Müller, Christin Camia

Politics & Gender, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 166-194

"The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have increased their promotion of women in public life. The expansion of women’s rights in these states functions as a central policy tool to stimulate modernization processes. This article investigates how the Gulf governments steer women’s empowerment ... more

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Women's Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

Carmit Wiesslitz (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 310 pp.

"This book showcases the online activism of women's groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women's struggles on other political and environme ... more

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Meta-Synthesis of UN Women Evaluations on Advocacy and Communications

Ekaterina Dorodnykh, Soo Yeon Kim, Aileen Allen

New York; Independent Evaluation Service (IES): UN Women (2023), ix, 32 pp.

"This meta-synthesis collates evaluation insights and evidence on the advocacy and communications efforts related to the key results areas of UN Women’s Strategic Plan: Governance and Participation in Public Life; Women’s Economic Empowerment; Ending Violence Against Women; and Women, Peace and ... more

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Égalité de genre dans la politique numérique au Burundi

Mario Filadoro (red.)

Geneva: ITU (2023), v, 32 pp.

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Handbook on mainstreaming gender in digital policies

Geneva: ITU (2023), viii, 67 pp.

"The Handbook is a first-of-its-kind guide that gives insights into how we can best support policy-making processes that advocate gender equality. It illustrates the concrete actions that policy-makers can take and offers an actionable checklist that supports the process of gender-equal policy-makin ... more

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Gender equality in digital policy in Ethiopia

Geneva: ITU (2023), vi, 26 pp.

"This country report provides an overview of the extent to which gender is addressed in Ethiopia’s digital policies, strategies, and regulations, divided into categories such as international development instruments, national digital policies and strategies, and digital sector-related laws and reg ... more

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How Audience Research Informed the Development of Niambie Project in Tanzania: A Look at Gender Dynamics and its Decision Making

Jasmine Shio, Catherine Buckell, Kaushiki Ghose

London: BBC Media Action (2023), 7 pp.

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Moving Beyond the Protest Paradigm? News Coverage of International Women’s Day Marches in Mexico

C. González de Bustamante G. Salazar Rebolledo

In: Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo Era

Andrea Jean Baker; Celeste González de Bustamante; Jeannine E. Relly (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), pp. 113-143

"The chapter examines how news coverage of feminist protests in Mexico, one of the most violent countries in the world for women and for journalists, has changed in mainstream Mexican media since the #MeToo movement’s revitalization after 2017. With few exceptions, news coverage in Mexico, a count ... more

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The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights

Aimee Vega Montiel, Margaret Gallagher (eds.)

Newark: Wiley (2023), xv, 432 pp.

"The first major collection of its kind published in the COVID-19 era, this unique volume frames a wide range of issues relevant to the gender and communication agenda within a human rights framework. An international panel of feminist academics and activists examines how media, information, and com ... more

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Community Radio Enabling Women’s Empowerment in Remote Communities of India

Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Saidsudha Sugavanam, Ritu Srivastava

Bombay: Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Rhizomatica;Spoken Tutorial Project (2022), 49 pp.

"The objective of this study is twofold –firstly to understand how women have found self-expression through community radio as a frugal technology and how, in turn, it has helped them serve the community and empower other women in the community to find their voices. Secondly, this study examines h ... more