Feminist Interventions in International Communication

Katharine Sarikakis is senior lecturer in communications policy and director of the Centre for International Communications Research at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. She is the author of Powers in Media Policy (Peter Lang 2004) and British Media in a Global Era (Arnold 2004), co-author of Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press 2006), and the co-editor of Ideologies of the Internet (Hampton Press 2006).Leslie Regan Shade is associate professor at Concordia University's Department of Communication Studies in Montreal. She is the author of Gender and the Social Construction of the Internet (Peter Lang 2002), co-editor of Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Nelson Thomson 2006), and co-editor of the Communications in the Public Interest series published by the Canadian Centre on Policy Alternatives.

When feminist categories of analysis are brought to bear on the world of the new information technologies the result can be exciting and unfamiliar. Sarikakis and Shade have brought together a highly diverse group of such scholars and given us one of themore extraordinary texts I have seen on the new technologies. Together these authors open up the field with their original studies and deborder established propositions with gusto and brio....

• Part 1 I: REVISITING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS STUDIESChapter 2 1 Revisiting International Communication: Approach of the Curious FeministChapter 3 2 Feminist Issues and the Global Media SystemChapter 4 3 Public/Private: The Hidden Dimension of International CommunicationsChapter 5 4 Women, Participation and Democracy in the Information SocietyPart 6 II: GENDERING POLICY REGIMESChapter 7 5 The Expediency of WomenChapter 8 6 Gender Sensitive Communications Policies for Women's Development: Issues and ChallengesChapter 9 7 The Spectral Politics of Mobile Communication Technologies: A Feminist Analysis of International PoliciesChapter 10 8 The Global Structures and Cultures of Pornography: The Global BrothelPart 11 III: MEDIATING MEANINGS-MEDIATING REGIMES OF POWERChapter 12 9 Mediations of Domination: Gendered Violence Within and Across BordersChapter 13 10 From Religious Fundamentalism to Pornography? The Female Body as Text in Arabic Song VideoChapter 14 11 Female Faces in the Millennium Development Goals: Reflections in the Mirrors of MediaChapter 15 12 Deadly Synergies: Gender Inequality, HIV/AIDs, and the MediaChapter 16 13 Online News: Setting New Gender AgendasPart 17 IV: LABOURING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONSChapter 18 14 Convergences: Elements of a Feminist Political Economy of Labor and CommunicationChapter 19 15 Women, Information Work, and the Corporatization of DevelopmentChapter 20 16 Empire and Sweatshop Girlhoods: The Two Faces of the Global Culture IndustryPart 21 V GLOCALIZING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGIESChapter 22 17 Feminist Print Cultures in the Digital EraChapter 23 18 Communication and Women in Eastern Europe: Challenges in Reshaping the Democratic SphereChapter 24 19 "GodZone"? NZ's Classification of Explicit Material in an Era of Global FundamentalismChapter 25 20 Grounding Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) for Telecenters: The Experiences of Ecuador and the Philippines