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Chapter 5 The Challenge of Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and Militarism in Media
This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot topics of study and remain so today. The book will consider race and gender issues in both historical and contemporary (including newly emerging) electronic media, and will focus on: 1) media content, 2) media audiences, and 3) media production. Chapters may reflect the intersection of race and gender, or overlap with either race or gender and other types of difference such as class, religion, and physical ability
Media Discourses and Postfeminism: An Analysis of Gender Logic in the Year of the Woman
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.As a set of organizing beliefs and codes that operate to structure cultural messages, this logic sets the terms and boundaries of the ways in which public, political women are discussed; thus, it exerts considerable influence on democratic processes. In this study I both analyze postfeminism and address issues of its production; specifically, I make recommendations for the amelioration of a reliance on postfeminist beliefs at the level of cultural production.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
Chapter 5 The Challenge of Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and Militarism in Media
This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot topics of study and remain so today. The book will consider race and gender issues in both historical and contemporary (including newly emerging) electronic media, and will focus on: 1) media content, 2) media audiences, and 3) media production. Chapters may reflect the intersection of race and gender, or overlap with either race or gender and other types of difference such as class, religion, and physical ability