Communication Studies: Women in Journalism

Interviews with female sportcasters and writers who broke down gender-based barriers that kept them from press boxes, locker rooms, and broadcast booths. This book reveals the sacrifices it takes to succeed and what challenges the everchanging media landscape may hold.

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands, often risking their lives on the front lines of war. From sexual harassment to the difficulty of traveling without a male relative, their challenges are unique and their voices shatter stereotypes and provide an urgently needed perspective about the region's women.

There's No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barriers at media organizations over the past four decades to determine a large part of what Americans read, view and think about the world.

Examines whether journalism’s new digital spaces suffer from the same gendered structures as traditional media organizations, the gendering of digital skills, the construction of gender in new digital spheres of journalism, and how these changes can lead to the disruption of gender inequalities and empowerment of women in journalism.

Interviews with female journalists at daily newspapers show othat vert hostility to women in the newsroom has been replaced by systemic inequality that limits or ends the careers of many female journalists. Despite decades of contributions to society's news agenda, women print journalists are still outsiders

Offers a solid framework for understanding women's political representation, including real world case studies of women's campaigns across a range of different geographies and contexts, and covers the role of social media in politics and elections.

Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, men continue to occupy most senior management positions. This book addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism. .

This unique collection of extracts is taken from women's journals and magazines - both British and American - on the eve of the twentieth century. Arranged by subject, the collection focuses on what this pivotal moment represented for women and includes an introduction to women's journalism of the period. The rapidly changing conditions then surrounding a woman's world are illustrated here by sections on: * monarchy * women and war * colonial women * the politics of emancipation * and girlhood.

Interviews with female sportcasters and writers who broke down gender-based barriers that kept them from press boxes, locker rooms, and broadcast booths. This book reveals the sacrifices it takes to succeed and what challenges the everchanging media landscape may hold.

The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern intellectual life, the fight for women's rights greater political and social equality at the turn of the twentieth century.

"In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had 'created a bigger revolution in the life of a woman than anything that has happened any time' as it brought the public sphere into the home and women into the public sphere."

Sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Journalists played a significant role in transforming Mexican social and political life.

In 1904, sixteen women travelled together by train to cover the St Louis World's Fair. The Sweet Sixteen traces the fateful ten-day trip that resulted in the formation of a professional club for the advancement of Canadian newspaper women. Drawing upon letters, journals, interviews, and most significantly, newspaper stories written by the women themselves, Linda Kay narrates the journey to St Louis with evocative detail.

The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like Henrietta Stackpole, the lady-correspondent in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady.

Introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry--from the employees' wives who hand-colored the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce beautifully beaded and embroidered costumes.