In their globally appraised book, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2009)
set out to prove statistically what the majority of even moderately progressive people have …

As they are a privileged site for the (re) construction of the dominant gender order, media
often contribute to naturalizing inequalities. This paper aims to critically discuss the way in …

The push and pull between theorising, research and activism has always been a feature of
feminist approaches to the media. Since its beginnings, a good deal of feminist scholarship …

Twenty years ago I was a newspaper reporter at a mid-size daily newspaper in a rustbelt
American city. I was the only person of color among the news staff, and the only self …

Over the past decade, Feminist Media Studies has published a rich array of research
ranging across highly theoretical interventions to detailed empirical studies of …

This essay discusses the assumptions that ground radical, liberal, and socialist feminist
theoretical frameworks, and reviews and critiques feminist media research. I argue that …

This article explores four thematic areas in feminist media criticism. First, it considers how
gender informs norms and values that pattern industry production practices and …

Feminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories,
methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over the past twenty-five years …

Feminist media theory relies on feminist theory. That is, it applies philosophies, concepts,
and logics articulating feminist principles and concepts to media processes such as hiring …

Since its first forays as an academic discipline, feminist media theory and research have
made important contributions to our understandings of women's status, gender ideologies …