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Feminism, media, and the law

Title
Feminism, media, and the law / edited by Martha A. Fineman & Martha T. McCluskey.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Fineman, Martha.
  • McCluskey, Martha T.
Description
xii, 319 p.; 26 cm.
Alternative Title
Feminism, media & the law
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-318).
Contents
Media images/feminist issues / Deborah L. Rhode -- Hate radio : why we need to tune in to Limbaugh and Stern / Patricia J. Williams -- The making of a "quota queen" : news media and the bias of objectivity / Laurel Leff -- The real Real Anita Hill, or the making of a backlash best-seller / Mary Coombs -- Fear of feminism : media stories of feminist victims and victims of feminism on college campuses / Martha T. McCluskey -- Glamour law : feminism through the looking glass of popular women's magazines / Julia E. Hanigsberg -- The movie of the week : law, narrativity, and gender on prime time / Elayne Rapping -- Rape on soaps : the legal angle / Dianne L. Brooks -- Pop justice : TV, motherhood, and the law / Isabel Karpin -- Law and racial reelism : Black women as celluloid "legal" heroines / Margaret M. Russell -- Women on trial : the female lawyer in the Hollywood courtroom / Cynthia Lucia -- Law, cultural media[tion], and desire in the lives of adolescent girls / Tracey E. Higgins & Deborah L. Tolman -- The politics of surrogacy narratives / E. Ann Kaplan -- "Bad mothers" and welfare reform in Massachusetts : the case of Claribel Ventura / Marie Ashe -- Spectacles of the strange : envisioning violence in the Central Park jogger trial / Kristin Bumiller -- Introduction : the seens and unseens of popular cultural representation / Lynn S. Chancer -- Crime news, crime fear, and women's everyday lives / Kathleen Daly & Amy Chasteen -- Lesbians, prostitutes, and murder : media constructs violence constructs power / Ann Russo -- Blindfolded : rape and the press's fear of feminism / Helen Benedict -- Race under construction : the master narrative of white supremacy in the media representation of African American/Korean American conflict / Lisa C. Ikemoto.
Call Number
JFF 99-625
ISBN
  • 0195096282
  • 0195096290 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96009457 //r98
OCLC
34933591
Title
Feminism, media, and the law / edited by Martha A. Fineman & Martha T. McCluskey.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-318).
Added Author
Fineman, Martha.
McCluskey, Martha T.
Cover Title
Feminism, media & the law
Research Call Number
JFF 99-625
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