Representation of women in the media-By Amelia

The representation of women in the media based on race, class and gender have many issues that are being delt with on a daily base. These summary's come from a vatriety of articles that I choose. The summarys talk about Forum on the feminist and the media, Crossing the Great Divides, race, class, and gender in the Southern womens organization, Feminist and its cultural consesus and Media images, feminist issues.
Forum on the Feminist and the Media
Leola A. Johnson
In this article Kozol, Rhode, and McDermott map out positions that are consistent with a long tradition of work among academic feminists on the media representations of women feminist. Feminist academics have been critical of the news and entertainment media since the earliest days of women movement. They also had a extremely hard time getting a fair hearing from the media. News organizations were very slow to grasp the importance of the movement, but with help from the inside and outside of the newsrooms finally the press treated the movement with more respect.
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Crossing the Great Divides Race, Class and Gender in the Southern Women’s Organization, 1979-1991
Barbra Ellen Smith
This article talks about the mutual interaction and interdependence of race, class, and gender and how that creates political dilemmas for feminist activist. How can we create coherent, inclusive political movements when the very oppressions we seek to dismantle also divides us internally? Was the question asked and answered by exploring the history of the Southeast Women’s Coalition (SWEC). Gender is insufficient to effect political unity among racially diverse women, but that a “politics of solidarity” based on an appreciation of intersections of race, class, and gender could be possible.
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Nancy Regan Wears a Hat: Feminism and its cultural consensus
Catherine R. Stimpson
In this article it talks about how in the late 1960’s feminist began to share a cultural consensus about the representation of women. Like every word, “representation” is a stew. A scrambled menu, it serves up to several meanings and can be presented in many ways, visual, verbal or aural. Think of a picture of a hat, now think of the sentence “Nancy Regan”, in her hat, is a proper woman”. For the past years feminist thinking about representation have been broken apart. This fracture is both cause and symptom of the larger collapse of a feminist cultural consensus. Meaning, first that the dominant, and dominating, representations of women and the misrepresentations are often by literature, the media and art. Second that women needed to confront these misrepresentations. Third that the representation of women had become far, far more diverse if it was to be real. Forth women had a way of judging the legitimacy, accuracy and cogency of the representations of women and fifth feminist were to insist on the connections between the private and the public.
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Women in Media Debated
In this article the women discussed their expectation from the media. Mater says media ignores the reality that women are “half of this life” as men continue to be focus point while Tanriover points out at the low number of news on women in political newspapers. At the BIA News Center other debates were stated. Mater says men always come to mind when preparing news, while Dogan debates we must distance our selves from male expressions and Yuksel says homosexuality connotes male models. These are some of the problems in the media that were discussed on Nov.5. This group meeting was moderated by journalist and wrier Ipek Calislar in Istanbul.
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Media issues, Feminist issues Deborah L. Rhode
In this article it talks about a central concern that has always been how the media reflect and recast feminist issues. Over the last quarter century, much has improved in press portraits of feminism, feminist and gender related issues. Yet much still needs to be improved. For example the way the media gets to choose to present (or not to present) as news about women and how they characterize (or caricature) the women’s movement. Also how journalist’s standard framing devices of selection, exclusion, emphasis, and tone can profoundly affect cultural perceptions.
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