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Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I - Two Decades of Progress?

Chapter 1 - Introduction: We've Come a Long Way, Maybe . . .

Chapter 2 - Sexed and Gendered Bodies in Journalism Textbooks

Chapter 3 - How to Stir Up a Hornets' Nest: Studying the Implications of Women Journalism Majors

Part II - Update on the Professions

Chapter 4 - Women in Newspaper Journalism (Since the 1990s)

Chapter 5 - Women's Salary and Status in the Magazine Industry

Chapter 6 - Radio: The More Things Change . . . The More They Stay the Same

Chapter 7 - Women and Minorities in Commercial and Public Television News, 1994–2004

Chapter 8 - Women in Public Relations: Success Linked to Organizational and Societal Cultures

Chapter 9 - Advertising Women: Images, Audiences, and Advertisers

Part III - Specializations . . .

Chapter 10 - The Power to Improve Lives: Women in Health Communication

Chapter 11 - Scholastic Media: Women in Quantity and Quality . . . But Is That Enough?

Chapter 12 - Increased Legitimacy, Fewer Women?: Analyzing Editorial Leadership and Gender in Online Journalism

Chapter 13 - Women Journalists in Toyland and in the Locker Room: It's All About the Money

Part IV - International Perspectives

Chapter 14 - Three Steps Forward and Two Back?: Women Journalists in the Western World Between Progress, Standstill, and Retreat

Chapter 15 - Bewitched, Bedeviled, and Left Behind: Women and Mass Communication in a World of Faith

Chapter 16 - The Global Context of Women in Communication

Part V - Building a Foundation for Further Study

Chapter 17 - On the Margins: Examining the Intersection of Women and the Law of Mass Communication

Chapter 18 - Situating "the Other": Women, Racial, and Sexual Minorities in the Media

Chapter 19 - Myths of Race and Beauty in Teen Magazines: A Semiotic Analysis

Chapter 20 - The Social Construction of Leadership and Its Implications for Women in Mass Communication

Chapter 21 - Got Theory?

Part VI - Where Do We Go From Here?

Chapter 22 - Our Conclusion: Gender Values Remain, Inequity Resurges, and Globalization Brings New Challenges

References

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Editors

About the Contributors