Sandra (Hrsg.) Jackson

Talking Back and Acting Out

Women Negotiating the Media Across Cultures

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Talking Back and Acting Out is a collection of writing by women who actively negotiate, reconstruct, and re-imagine their identities in opposition to dominant cultural constructions. Stories in the mass media often reduce women to stereotypes grounded in ideas about social class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, and nationality. These media images are not only limiting, but the stories are often couched in victimization and powerlessness. This collection explores individual women's refusal to be reduced to hegemonic constructions, prescribed identities, and limited possibilities. These essays highlight stories of women who push… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Russo, Ann (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8204-5172-5
EAN: 9780820451725
Produktnummer: 19043335
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 215 S.
Masse: H15.4 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.4 cm 320 g
Gewicht: 320
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

The Editors: Sandra Jackson is Associate Professor in the School of Education at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Her teaching and research interests include teacher education and faculty development, autobiography and narrative, feminist frameworks, curriculum studies, secondary education, higher education, and multiculturalism. She is co-author of Beyond Comfort Zones in Multiculturalism: Challenging the Politics of Privilege as Educators (1995) and co-editor of I've Got a Story to Tell: Identity and Place in the Academy (Peter Lang, 1999). Ann Russo is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Her research, teaching, and activism focus on the harassment, abuse, and violence in women's lives. She is co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (1990) and co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (1998).