Challenging Images of Women in the Media

Edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell - Contributions by Rukhsana Ahmed; Kimiko Akita; Saayan Chattopadhyay; Nicole Defenbaugh; Lisa French; Barbara Friedman; Elza Ibroscheva; Zara Idrees; Elizabeth Johnson; Anne Johnston; Kimberly N. Kline; Lynn Ma

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.

IntroductionPart 1. Reinscribing Women's RolesChapter 1. Feeling Good Never Looked Better: Examining Representations of Women in Special K AdvertisementsBy Vanessa Reimer and Rukhsana AhmedChapter 2. Tales from the Oh-Oku: The Shogun's Inner Palace and The Outer (Mediated) WorldBy Kimiko AkitaChapter 3. Pakistani Media and Disempowerment of WomenBy Saman Talib and Zara IdreesChapter 4. Women in Film . . . Treading Water but fit for the MarathonBy Lisa FrenchPart 2. Political IssuesChapter 5. Mass Media Explain the Global Sex TradeBy Anne Johnston, Barbara Friedman, and Autumn ShaferChapter 6. Gendered Construction of Illness: A Post-Structuralist Critique of GardasilBy Nicole Defenbaugh and Kimberly KlineChapter 7. Who's Afraid of the Pink Chaddi?: New Media, Hindutva, and Feminist Agency in IndiaBy Saayan ChattopadhyayPart 3. Westernizing WomenChapter 8. Representation of the Modern Chinese Woman in a Discourse of ConsumerismBy Wei LuoChapter 9. From "Babushki" to "Sexy Babes": The Sexing-up of Women in Bulgarian AdvertisingBy Elza IbroschevaPart 4. Political IndividualsChapter 10. Dorothy Jurney, Fran Harris, and Professional Journalist NetworksBy Steven Carl SmithChapter 11. The Media Manipulation of Angela MerkelBy Lynn KutchChapter 12. All Hail the Queen: The Metamorphosis or Selling out of Queen LatifahBy Elizabeth JohnsonChapter 13. 18,000,000 Cracks or How Hillary Almost Became PresidentBy Lori MontalbanoPart 5. Reflective EssaysChapter 14. Big, Black, Boisterous Badasses: Why Queen-Sized African American Women are Never Really RoyaltyBy Deatra Sullivan-MorganChapter 15. Lesbian Comics: Negotiating Queer VisibilityBy Theresa Carilli