Challenging Images of Women in the Media

Edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell

Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women's Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. With a global focus, this collection scrutinizes issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality through a study of gendered media portrayals. By challenging the status quo of media images, the contributors to this essential volume invite a dialogue about women's lives.

Introduction Part 1. Reinscribing Women's Roles Chapter 1. Feeling Good Never Looked Better: Examining Representations of Women in Special K Advertisements By Vanessa Reimer and Rukhsana Ahmed Chapter 2. Tales from the Oh-Oku: The Shogun's Inner Palace and The Outer (Mediated) World By Kimiko Akita Chapter 3. Pakistani Media and Disempowerment of Women By Saman Talib and Zara Idrees Chapter 4. Women in Film ... Treading Water but fit for the Marathon By Lisa French Part 2. Political Issues Chapter 5. Mass Media Explain the Global Sex Trade By Anne Johnston, Barbara Friedman, and Autumn Shafer Chapter 6. Gendered Construction of Illness: A Post-Structuralist Critique of Gardasil By Nicole Defenbaugh and Kimberly Kline Chapter 7. Who's Afraid of the Pink Chaddi?: New Media, Hindutva, and Feminist Agency in India By Saayan Chattopadhyay Part 3. Westernizing Women Chapter 8. Representation of the Modern Chinese Woman in a Discourse of Consumerism By Wei Luo Chapter 9. From "Babushki" to "Sexy Babes": The Sexing-up of Women in Bulgarian Advertising By Elza Ibroscheva Part 4. Political Individuals Chapter 10. Dorothy Jurney, Fran Harris, and Professional Journalist Networks By Steven Carl Smith Chapter 11. The Media Manipulation of Angela Merkel By Lynn Kutch Chapter 12. All Hail the Queen: The Metamorphosis or Selling out of Queen Latifah By Elizabeth Johnson Chapter 13. 18,000,000 Cracks or How Hillary Almost Became President By Lori Montalbano Part 5. Reflective Essays Chapter 14. Big, Black, Boisterous Badasses: Why Queen-Sized African American Women are Never Really Royalty By Deatra Sullivan-Morgan Chapter 15. Lesbian Comics: Negotiating Queer Visibility By Theresa Carilli