Feminist Media

Where Are the Women? The Presence of Female Columnists in U.S. Opinion Pages

“…However, rather than simply identifying the problems with ideology, hegemony, and media, feminism is committed to intervening and transforming these systems of power in terms of both media practices and content. 17 Fraser noted how dominant groups by gender, race, and class control the ways a society communicates and interprets information. In other words, the hegemonic group drives the use of official vocabularies, rhetorical devices, idioms for communicating one's needs, and the paradigms of argumentation accepted as authoritative.…”

“…20 From within a feminist theoretical framework, feminist ethics offers not only a means from which to analyze problems that emerge in media content and the workplace, but recommends ways to resist oppressive practices and subscribe to alternatives that promote emancipation. 21 As such, Steiner explains, "Feminist ethics is concerned with how people can live together with others in healthy, productive ways and how we can build social or political structures to support this." 22 Feminist ethics is thus particularly relevant to the discussion of women's voices on opinion pages because of the ethical considerations essential to speech, the silencing of speech, who gets to speak, who does not, and who is listened to and not listened to.…”