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Women and Media in the Middle East: From Veiling to Blogging book cover

1st Edition

Women and Media in the Middle East From Veiling to Blogging

Edited By Nahed Eltantawy Copyright 2016
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge
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The traditional image of the Middle Eastern woman, as portrayed by the Western media, has tended to be one of a woman oppressed by men and religion. Veiling intensifies this image of supposed powerlessness and imprisonment. However, the Arab Spring uprisings have introduced the West to women in the Middle East who do not conform to this stereotype, and have shown the Western media that Middle... Read more

Introduction – From Veiling to Blogging: Women and media in the Middle East Nahed Eltantawy

1. Veiled Threats: Decentering and unification in transnational news coverage of the French veil ban Barbara Friedman and Patrick Merle

2. I am Just Doing my Bit to Promote Modesty: Niqabis’ self-portraits on photo-sharing websites Anna Piela

3. They Call Me Muslim: Muslim women in the media through and beyond the veil Jennifer Sotsky

4. Finding a Place for a Muslimah Heroine in the Post-9/11 Marvel Universe: New X-Men’s Dust Julie Davis and Robert Westerfelhaus

5. Selfish, Vengeful, and Full of Spite: The representations of women who have abortions on Turkish television Mary Lou O’Neil

6. Mediated Piety in Contemporary Syria: Women, Islam, and television Tatiana Rabinovich

7. A Right to Exist: A Palestinian speaks Elaine Drainville and Amir Saeed

8. Women’s Experiences of Work in the Iranian Broadcast Media (IRIB): Motivations, challenges, and achievements Asemeh Ghasemi

9. "Talking Back": The poetry of Suheir Hammad Kenza Oumlil

10. Social Media and Turkish Feminism: New resources for social activism Hande Eslen-Ziya

11. The First Ladies and the Arab Spring: A textual analysis of the media coverage of the female counterparts of authoritarian oppression in the Middle East Elza Ibroscheva

12. In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women Courtney C. Radsch and Sahar Khamis

Biography

Nahed Eltantawy is an Associate Professor of Journalism at High Point University, North Carolina, USA, where she teaches a variety of convergent journalism courses as well as women and gender studies. Her research interests include the media’s representation of women, the role of the media in the Middle East, social media and cyber activism, and critical and cultural studies. Her work has been published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies and the Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research.

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