Teaching Women in the News: Exposing the "Invisible Majority.".

Miller, Penny M.

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Publication Date: 1996

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Teaching Women in the News: Exposing the "Invisible Majority."

Miller, Penny M.

PS: Political Science and Politics, v29 n3 p513-17 Sep 1996

Presents the results of an exercise investigating the representation of women in national and regional newspapers. Discovers that stories about women consistently focus on victimization and gender oddities. They also routinely include personal information excluded in stories about men (physical descriptions and familial status). Includes suggestions for class activities. (MJP)

Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Consciousness Raising, Content Analysis, Critical Thinking, Feature Stories, Females, Feminism, Higher Education, Journalism, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Media Research, News Writing, Newspapers, Political Science, Sex Bias, Sex Stereotypes, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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