News, Gender and Power

News, Gender and Poweraddresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism, and draws on feminist theory and gender-sensitive critiques to explore the connections between news, gender and power. Within this framework the contributors explore media coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, child sexual abuse and "false memory syndrome," and the representation of women in life-style documentaries. Contributors: Patricia Bradley, Rod Brookes, John Hartley, Beverley Holbrook, Pat Holland, Jenny Kitzinger, Myra Macdonald, Lisa Mclaughlin, LindaSteiner, Janet Thumin, Liesbet van Zoonen, C. Kay Weaver, Maggie Wykes.

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Setting New(s) Agendas	p. 1
The Gender Politics of Journalism	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
The Politics of the Smile	p. 17
One of the Girls?	p. 33
Juvenation	p. 47
Gender, Privacy and Publicity in 'media Event Space'	p. 71
'mrs Knight Must Be Balanced'	p. 91
Politicizing the Personal	p. 105
(en) Gendering the Truth Politics of News Discourse	p. 121
The Gendered Realities of News	p. 139
Introduction	p. 141
Newsroom Accounts of Power at Work	p. 145
Mass Communication and the Shaping of Us Feminism	p. 160
'mad Cows and Englishmen'	p. 174
The Gender-Politics of News Production	p. 186
Gender and the Agenda	p. 204
When the 'extraordinary' Becomes 'ordinary'	p. 219
A Family Affair	p. 233
Crimewatch Uk	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 286
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