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"The author offers surprising connections and comparisons in the
book . . . and she provides a solid overview of the women's
movement in America to the present. . . . Highly recommended for
upper-division and graduate media, cultural, and feminist studies
collections."--"Choice" "Dow's critical insights are inventive,
ranging wisely across several disciplines, particularly the history
of the U.S. women's movement."--"Journal of Communication" Dow
discusses a wide variety of television programming and provides
specific case studies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a
Time, Designing Women, Murphy Brown, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
She juxtaposes analyses of genre, plot, character development, and
narrative structure with the larger debates over feminism that took
place at the time the programs originally aired. Dow emphasizes the
power of the relationships among television entertainment, news
media, women's magazines, publicity, and celebrity biographies and
interviews in creating a framework through which television viewers
"make sense" of both the medium's portrayal of feminism and the
nature of feminism itself. ""Prime-Time Feminism" is an important
book for scholars and courses in gender and the media. It is a
crucial piece of a picture that has not always been
pretty."--"Quarterly Journal of Speech" Bonnie J. Dow is Assistant
Professor of Communication at North Dakota State University.
In 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC--the "Big Three" of the pre-cable
television era--discovered the feminist movement. From the famed
sit-in at Ladies' Home Journal to multi-part feature stories on the
movement's ideas and leaders, nightly news broadcasts covered
feminism more than in any year before or since, bringing women's
liberation into American homes.
In Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on
the Network News, Bonnie J. Dow uses case studies of key media
events to delve into the ways national TV news mediated the
emergence of feminism's second wave. First legitimized as a big
story by print media, the feminist movement gained broadcast
attention as the networks' eagerness to get in on the action was
accompanied by feminists' efforts to use national media for their
own purposes. Dow chronicles the conditions that precipitated
feminism's new visibility and analyzes the verbal and visual
strategies of broadcast news discourses that tried to make sense of
the movement.
Groundbreaking and packed with detail, Watching Women's
Liberation, 1970 shows how feminism went mainstream--and what it
gained and lost on the way.
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in
the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive
decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women
living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their
control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations
into Discourses of Reproduction explores contemporary maternity
both within and in light of these late-twentieth century
understandings. Employing a variety of feminist communication
approaches, the volume's contributors discuss how discourses of
choice shape and are shaped by women's identities and experiences
as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect
private practices and public policies related to reproduction and
motherhood. Through this process, the contributors illustrate a
variety of ways of conducting feminist thinking, research, and
practices within the communication discipline. Major
sub-disciplines within communication studies are represented here
including feminist organizational, interpersonal, rhetorical,
critical/cultural, and social movement studies. Whereas many of the
previous scholarly investigations into maternity highlight only one
aspect or phase of motherhood, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of
Choice is unique because it investigates discourses of choice
across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various
(non)maternal subject positions.
The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication is a vital resource
for those seeking to explore the complex interactions of gender and
communication. Editors Bonnie J. Dow and Julia T. Wood, together
with an illustrious group of contributors, review and evaluate the
state of the gender and communication field through the discussion
of existing theories and research, as well as through
identification of important directions for future scholarship. The
first of its kind, this Handbook examines the primary contexts in
which gender and communication are shaped, reflected, and
expressed: interpersonal, organizational, rhetoric, media, and
intercultural/global. Key Features: Brings together the expertise
of leading scholars: Esteemed scholars edit each section and
leading researchers in the field author each chapter. The
distillation of scholarship in each area by seasoned scholars
clarifies what is and is not known in that area of research. Offers
historical and theoretical perspectives: Authors discuss the
development of gender and communication research during the past
three decades and examine the theories, questions, and issues about
gender and communication that are ascending to define the next
stage of work in the area. Provides comprehensive reference lists:
Each section summarizes existing theory and research related to an
area of gender and communication scholarship and guides readers to
the central works in the field, as well as directs future
scholarship toward the most urgent, important, and promising
topics, methodologies, and/or perspectives.
In 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC--the "Big Three" of the pre-cable
television era--discovered the feminist movement. From the famed
sit-in at Ladies' Home Journal to multi-part feature stories on the
movement's ideas and leaders, nightly news broadcasts covered
feminism more than in any year before or since, bringing women's
liberation into American homes.
In Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on
the Network News, Bonnie J. Dow uses case studies of key media
events to delve into the ways national TV news mediated the
emergence of feminism's second wave. First legitimized as a big
story by print media, the feminist movement gained broadcast
attention as the networks' eagerness to get in on the action was
accompanied by feminists' efforts to use national media for their
own purposes. Dow chronicles the conditions that precipitated
feminism's new visibility and analyzes the verbal and visual
strategies of broadcast news discourses that tried to make sense of
the movement.
Groundbreaking and packed with detail, Watching Women's
Liberation, 1970 shows how feminism went mainstream--and what it
gained and lost on the way.
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