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Women, Feminism and Media
Sue Thornham
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Description for Women, Feminism and Media
Paperback. A study of the key areas of issue and debate in feminist media studies over the past twenty years. Editor(s): Alia, Valerie. Series: Media Topics. Num Pages: 184 pages, 7 B&W. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
Over the past few decades feminist media scholarship has flourished, to become a major influence on the fields of media, film and cultural studies. At the same time, the cultural shift towards 'post-feminism' has raised questions about the continuing validity of feminism as a defining term for this work. This book explores the changing and often ambivalent relationship between the three terms women, feminism and media in the light of these recent debates. At the same time it places them within the broader discussions within feminist theory - about subjectivity, identity, culture, and narrative - of which they have formed ... Read more
Over the past few decades feminist media scholarship has flourished, to become a major influence on the fields of media, film and cultural studies. At the same time, the cultural shift towards 'post-feminism' has raised questions about the continuing validity of feminism as a defining term for this work. This book explores the changing and often ambivalent relationship between the three terms women, feminism and media in the light of these recent debates. At the same time it places them within the broader discussions within feminist theory - about subjectivity, identity, culture, and narrative - of which they have formed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Media Topics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748620715
SKU
V9780748620715
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About Sue Thornham
Sue Thornham is Professor of Media and Film at the University of Sussex.
Reviews for Women, Feminism and Media
Women, Feminism and Media is a brilliant interdisciplinary synthesis of decades of academic and activist debate. Not only does this book have a breath-taking theoretical and empirical scope but it also delivers complex ideas with an admirable clarity and situates them in the changing political and cultural contexts which are so crucial to understanding their development and significance. This is ... Read more