Stasis and shifts in feminist media scholarship

Resumo

Originally a keynote speech at an international feminist conference, the article reviews patterns in women-and-media research and poses new directions. Over forty years of feminist analysis of media, researchers have focused disproportionately on women’s representations and excluded the structural causes for those representations. The author emphasizes the need for macro-level investigations in communication law and policy, industry structures,and financing to better understand the gendered power dynamics that causewomen to be underrepresented in media decision making positions and inserious news and programming.