Women and media in the Middle East : power through self-expression /: power through self-expression. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Naomi Sakr.
• Other Names: Sakr, Naomi
• Contents: Women-media interaction in the Middle East: an introductory overview / Naomi Sakr -- The women's press in contemporary Iran: engendering the public sphere / Gholam Khiabany, Annabelle Sreberny -- 'Til I become a minister': women's rights and women's journalism in pre-1952 Egypt / Sonia Dabbous -- Maghrebi women film-makers and the challenge of modernity: breaking women's silence / Zabia Smail Salhi -- The Orient and its others: women as tools of nationalism in Egyptian political cinema / Lina Khatib -- Multiple literacies, multiple identities: Egyptian rural women's readings of televised literacy campaigns / Sahar Khamis -- Echoes: gender and media challenges in Palestine / Benaz Somiry-Batrawi -- Engagement in the public sphere: women and the press in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault -- Blessings and curses: women and the internet revolution in the Arab world / Deborah L. Wheeler -- Power, NGOs and Lebanese television: a case study of Al-Manar TV and the Hezbollah women's association / Victoria Firmo-Fontan -- Straddling cultures: Arab women journalists at home and abroad / Magda Abu-Fadil.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 302.230956; Mass media -- Middle East; Mass media and women -- Middle East; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies; Mass media; Mass media and women; Massamedia; Vrouwen; Medien; Medien -- Frau -- Naher Osten; Frau -- Medien -- Naher Osten; Frau; Middle East; Naher Osten; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1417582685; 9781417582686; 9781850434856; 1850434859; 9781850435457; 1850435456; 9780857730213; 0857730215; 9780857717979; 0857717979
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.