Feminist media and history: a response to James Curran

DiCenzo, Maria

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“…As an area of academic study, scholarly attention on journalism history has traditionally reflected a dominant male perspective and, as a result, has neglected issues pertaining to women and gender (Beasley 1995(Beasley , 2001DiCenzo 2004DiCenzo , 2010Freeman 2011;Yang 2000). Within…”

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“…143). This, in turn, allows for "grassroots voices [and issues] to be better heard", including feminist and working-class issues (Curran 2007: xvi;DiCenzo 2004DiCenzo , 2010Steiner 1992;Tusan 2005). A view of alternative media as critical media, as argued by Sandoval and Fuchs (2010), allows us to "question ruling ideas and to contribute to the realization of suppressed societal alternatives.…”

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“…34 As 33 For a survey of different ways that the term 'alternative media' has been conceptualized and/or defined, see Atton 1999Atton , 2003Atton , 2009Atton and Hamilton 2008;Bailey et al 2008;Comedia 1984;Coyer et al 2007;Harcup 2003Harcup , 2011and Streitmatter 2001. 34 For an overview of studies on women's political print media in the United Kingdom during the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, see DiCenzo 2004, pages 47-48;DiCenzo 2010;DiCenzo and Ryan 2007;DiCenzo, Delap andRyan 2011. Linda Steiner (1991) offers an historical overview of the diversity of women's media in the United States (including some international perspectives) from the mid-19 th century onwards.…”

Section: Alternative Voices: the Case For Alternative Mediamentioning

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“…8). Feminist media creates a space that, in addition to reporting on a range of national and international events, foregrounds women's experiences and discusses women's issues-issues that may seem controversial and threatening to market-oriented, male-run mainstream news organizations and their advertisers who have it in their own best interests to structure women into domestic roles (Beck 2008;Byerly and Ross 2006;Chambers et al 1998;DiCenzo 2010;DiCenzo, Delap and Ryan 2011;Steiner 1992).…”

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Women in the Margins: Media Representations of Women's Labour in the Canadian Press, 1935-1945

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2021

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During the Second World War, women’s participation in Canada’s ‘total war’ effort meant increased domestic responsibilities, volunteering, enlisting in the armed forces, and joining the civilian workforce. Women’s labour force participation more than doubled throughout the war, with more women working alongside and in place of men than ever before. This created a situation that could challenge the traditional sexual division of labour, and so women’s labour became a subject for discussion in the public sphere. Through a comparative content analysis of the commercial and alternative (labour) press, this study examines representations of women’s labour in wartime in the context of women’s mobilization into the war effort through to subsequent demobilization near war’s end. It first considers the theoretical and methodological issues involved in the historical study of news media and women and then offers original empirical research to demonstrate that when women’s labour did emerge as a subject in the Canadian press, gender, not labour, was prioritized in the news. This was symbolically and systematically leveraged both within and across the commercial and alternative press, which reinforces stereotypical values about women and their labour and upheld the patriarchal status quo. In the end, while there were surface-level changes to the nature of women’s paid labour during the war, the structures of female subordination and exploitation remained unchallenged despite women’s massive mobilization into the workforce. By setting media representations against the wartime realities of women’s labour told through archival records and secondary literature, this dissertation argues that news media generally presented a ‘history’ of women’s labour that did not reflect the lived reality or the political economic and social significance of women’s labouring lives. This not only coloured how women’s labour was represented in the news, but it can also shape the history that scholars construct from the newspaper. In contributing to feminist media and media history scholarship, this dissertation offers empirical evidence that challenges dominant ways of thinking about women’s history in terms of the domestic sphere and furthers an understanding of women’s wage labour as a provocation to such historical public-private divisions. This may, in turn, inspire histories that more fully and equitably capture women’s experiences.

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Section: Alternative Voices: the Case For Alternative Mediamentioning

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Women in the Margins: Media Representations of Women's Labour in the Canadian Press, 1935-1945

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2021

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“…12 Scholarship on the relationship between women's history and the press is, to some extent, still in a "recovery" mode, concentrating on telling once-forgotten stories. 13 Moreover, much of the best work focuses on magazines and other periodicals, rather than newspapers per se. This is not surprising, given that Victorians themselves often envisioned the ideal newspaper reader as male; the magazine was more likely to be viewed as a feminine medium.…”

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Newspapers in Victorian Britain

Hampton

2004

History Compass

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This article argues that while the prolific scholarship on the Victorian press arguably does not constitute a coherent research field that engages with common concerns, broader trends can be identified into which much of the scholarship falls. Specifically, many studies of the Victorian press can be categorized around three questions: the level of continuity or rupture between mid-Victorian newspapers and the New Journalism beginning in the 1880s; the press\u27s role in social control; and the role of the press in buttressing and challenging separate spheres ideologies

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Feminist Media

Steiner¹

2015

The International Encyclopedia of Communication

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Feminist media and history: a response to James Curran

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Women in the Margins: Media Representations of Women's Labour in the Canadian Press, 1935-1945

Women in the Margins: Media Representations of Women's Labour in the Canadian Press, 1935-1945

Newspapers in Victorian Britain

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