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Minority Women and Western Media

Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices

Edited by Maha Bashri and Sameera Ahmed - Contributions by Leticia Anderson; Sigal Barak-Brandes; Debora Freud; Kathomi Gatwiri; Zahra Jafari; Khulekani Madlela; Beris Artan Özoran and Ilgar Seyidov

Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status. Whilst their voices are frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves. This book provides insights into how women are represented in different media, including newspapers, television shows, films, and online platforms. Scholars of media studies, women’s studies, and communication will find this book particularly useful.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 150 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4985-9985-6 • Hardback • July 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-9987-0 • Paperback • December 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-4985-9986-3 • eBook • July 2020 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Series: Media, Culture, and the Arts
Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / General, Social Science / Social Change, Social Science / General, Social Science / Minority Studies

Maha Bashri is associate professor of communication at the United Arab Emirates University.

Sameera Ahmed is associate professor at the United Arab Emirates University.

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Towards a New Freedom

THERESA CARILLI

Chapter 1: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Belonging: Media Representations of American Muslim Women (The Case of the New York Times 2007-2017)

MAHA BASHRI

Chapter 2: Reinforcing or Reframing Dominant Views? A Discourse Analysis of Black South African Women’s Self-Representations of Natural Hair in the Blogosphere

KHULEKANI MADLELA

Chapter 3: Drawing a Portrait of Refugee Representation in Turkish Newspapers: A Framing Analysis of Hürriyet and Sabah

BERIS ARTAN ÖZORAN and ILGAR SEDYIDOV

Chapter 4: On “Getting Yassmined”: How the Australian Media Polices the Bodies of Women of Color

LETICIA ANDERSON and KATHOMI GATWIRI

Chapter 5: Iranian Women and the Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Untold

ZAHRA JAFARI

Chapter 6: Silencing and Victim Blaming of a Woman Who Stutters: A Televised Case Study

SIGAL BARAK-BRANDES and DEBORA FREUD

Chapter 7: Women in British Muslim Media: New Voices and Emerging Discourses

SAMEERA TAHIRA AHMED

Epilogue: Global Solidarity for New Media Realities and Discourses

MAHA BASHRI and SAMEERA TAHIRA AHMED

In this concise narrative, editors Bashri and Ahmed offer an invaluable perspective on the diversity of women's voices and representations in Western mass media. The anthology comprises seven chapters that interrogate the legacies of colonialism using intersectional feminism to examine race, ethnicity, status, and ability. Each chapter frames the duality of women's position as outsider to media's framing of men as heroic, while the collection as a whole seeks to "disrupt the master narrative" by questioning false images and stereotypes to understand their pervasiveness across Western societies. Chapters 1 and 7 explore depictions of Muslim women in America and Great Britain within mainstream media outlets as a heterogenous group portrayed in static terms, which has prevented their inclusion and fostered "othering." Further chapters interrogate presentations of minority women's bodies from the perception of self and as "other," notably Leticia Anderson and Kathomi Gatwiri's "Getting Yassmined," which analyzes the process by which two women were "minoritized," or knocked down in status based on race. This accessible volume encourages valuable conversations on the interactions of race, gender, and the media. Highly recommended.


— Choice Reviews


Minority Women and Western Media is an important study in the light of concerns relating to the experiences of minority women across the world’s media today and the challenges faced in relation to misrepresentation. It fulfills an important function, one that seeks to improve understandings and build relations in the context of wider social and political polarization given the specific concerns regarding the positions and realities of diverse women across the world today.


— Tahir Abbas, professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University


Maha Bashri and Sameera Ahmed’s thoroughly-researched collection is a must-read for anyone looking for fresh and robust international perspectives on the misrepresentation and underrepresention of minority women in the media. It’s a subject we can’t ignore any longer.
— Bruce Mutsvairo, professor in Journalism, Auburn University


6/27/21, Choice: Named to the Choice “Top 75 Community College Titles” feature.
Link: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-june-edition



Minority Women and Western Media

Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status. Whilst their voices are frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves. This book provides insights into how women are represented in different media, including newspapers, television shows, films, and online platforms. Scholars of media studies, women’s studies, and communication will find this book particularly useful.
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 150 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
    978-1-4985-9985-6 • Hardback • July 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    978-1-4985-9987-0 • Paperback • December 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
    978-1-4985-9986-3 • eBook • July 2020 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
    Series: Media, Culture, and the Arts
    Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / General, Social Science / Social Change, Social Science / General, Social Science / Minority Studies
Author
Author
  • Maha Bashri is associate professor of communication at the United Arab Emirates University.

    Sameera Ahmed is associate professor at the United Arab Emirates University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Contents

    List of Figures

    List of Tables

    List of Contributors

    Acknowledgments

    Prologue: Towards a New Freedom

    THERESA CARILLI

    Chapter 1: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Belonging: Media Representations of American Muslim Women (The Case of the New York Times 2007-2017)

    MAHA BASHRI

    Chapter 2: Reinforcing or Reframing Dominant Views? A Discourse Analysis of Black South African Women’s Self-Representations of Natural Hair in the Blogosphere

    KHULEKANI MADLELA

    Chapter 3: Drawing a Portrait of Refugee Representation in Turkish Newspapers: A Framing Analysis of Hürriyet and Sabah

    BERIS ARTAN ÖZORAN and ILGAR SEDYIDOV

    Chapter 4: On “Getting Yassmined”: How the Australian Media Polices the Bodies of Women of Color

    LETICIA ANDERSON and KATHOMI GATWIRI

    Chapter 5: Iranian Women and the Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Untold

    ZAHRA JAFARI

    Chapter 6: Silencing and Victim Blaming of a Woman Who Stutters: A Televised Case Study

    SIGAL BARAK-BRANDES and DEBORA FREUD

    Chapter 7: Women in British Muslim Media: New Voices and Emerging Discourses

    SAMEERA TAHIRA AHMED

    Epilogue: Global Solidarity for New Media Realities and Discourses

    MAHA BASHRI and SAMEERA TAHIRA AHMED

Reviews
Reviews
  • In this concise narrative, editors Bashri and Ahmed offer an invaluable perspective on the diversity of women's voices and representations in Western mass media. The anthology comprises seven chapters that interrogate the legacies of colonialism using intersectional feminism to examine race, ethnicity, status, and ability. Each chapter frames the duality of women's position as outsider to media's framing of men as heroic, while the collection as a whole seeks to "disrupt the master narrative" by questioning false images and stereotypes to understand their pervasiveness across Western societies. Chapters 1 and 7 explore depictions of Muslim women in America and Great Britain within mainstream media outlets as a heterogenous group portrayed in static terms, which has prevented their inclusion and fostered "othering." Further chapters interrogate presentations of minority women's bodies from the perception of self and as "other," notably Leticia Anderson and Kathomi Gatwiri's "Getting Yassmined," which analyzes the process by which two women were "minoritized," or knocked down in status based on race. This accessible volume encourages valuable conversations on the interactions of race, gender, and the media. Highly recommended.


    — Choice Reviews


    Minority Women and Western Media is an important study in the light of concerns relating to the experiences of minority women across the world’s media today and the challenges faced in relation to misrepresentation. It fulfills an important function, one that seeks to improve understandings and build relations in the context of wider social and political polarization given the specific concerns regarding the positions and realities of diverse women across the world today.


    — Tahir Abbas, professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University


    Maha Bashri and Sameera Ahmed’s thoroughly-researched collection is a must-read for anyone looking for fresh and robust international perspectives on the misrepresentation and underrepresention of minority women in the media. It’s a subject we can’t ignore any longer.
    — Bruce Mutsvairo, professor in Journalism, Auburn University


Features
Features
  • 6/27/21, Choice: Named to the Choice “Top 75 Community College Titles” feature.
    Link: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-june-edition



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