This book describes the strategies of empowe rment which women have devised, and the transformations whic h they have wrought on communication systems which have excl uded women''s concerns and issues. '
Introduction - Ramona R Rush Websters and Spinsters PART ONE: COMMUNICATION VISIONS Ten Tenets for Deeper Communications - Ramona R Rush Transforming Communications Theory and Research Transforming Faith in the First Amendment - Christy C Bulkeley Communication, Socialization, and Domination - Riane Eisler The Replication of Violence and the Partnership Alternative Environmental Communication - JoAnn Myer Valenti A Female-Friendly Process Action Research - Edna F Einsiedel Implications for Gender, Development, and Communications Afrocentric, Archetypical Perspectives - Frankie Hutton Four Black Female Journalists Return of a Native Daughter - Anne Wilson Schaef PART TWO: COMMUNICATION CHASMS Democracy, Technology, and the Public Library - Patricia Madoo Lengermann, Jill Niebrugge-Brantley, and Jane Kirkpatrick A Feminist Sociological Analysis Revolutionary Circles within Larger Political Patterns - Gloria Steinem An Afterword to Revolution from Within Women, Ethnic and Language Minorities, and Mass Media - Annette J Samuels Uncovering the Media Coverage of Sport - Judith Cramer Suing the Sacred Cows That Fed Her - Sandy Nelson Surviving Auschwitz and the Media - Susan J Kaufman A Mengele Twin's Media Voyage Against the Male Flood - Andrea Dworkin Censorship, Pornography, and Equality A Systemic Commitment to Women in the Academy - Ramona R Rush Barriers, Harrassment Prevent `Being All That We Can Be' Feminism after Ferment - Kathryn Cirksena Ten Years of Gendered Scholarship in Communications The Wren, the Eagles, and the Assistant Professor - Susan Holly Stocking and Julianne H Newton Demonstrations in Intellectual Diversity - Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte Applied Theory to Challenge Campus Press Hegemony A Challenge to Traditional Media Technology in the Form of a Dialogue with an Absent Other - Sharon A Russell The Rib Syndrome - Pamela J Creedon Rebels, Servants, and Victims PART THREE: TRANSFORMATIVE COMMUNICATIONS The Birth, Success, Death, and Lasting Influence of a Feminist Periodical - Paula Kassell New Directions for Women (1972-1993-?) Women and International Communication - Fran P Hosken The Story of WIN News The Founding of WINGS (Women's International News Gathering Service) - Frieda Werden A Story of Feminist Radio Survival Feminist International Radio Endeavor - FIRE - Maria Suarez Toro Women Communicating Globally - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi Mediating International Feminism Reclaiming Language - Casey Miller and Kate Swift African American Women and Mass Communication Research - Jannette L Dates and Carolyn A Stroman Women at Hearst Magazines - Barbara Straus Reed A Case Study of Women in Magazine Publishing Television's Transformative Role in Courtroom Justice for Women and Children - Elizabeth Dodson Gray Filipino Women in Communications - Florangel Rosario-Braid Breaking New Grounds The Washington Press Club Foundation's Oral History Project - Peggy A Simpson Getting Women Journalists to Speak of Themselves, for Themselves, for Herstory's Sake Powerful Grassroots Women Communicators - Sara Stuart and Renuka Bery Participatory Video in Bangladesh Multicultural Literacy - Marlene G Fine Communicating in Culturally Diverse Organizations Women and Technology - Donna Allen Transforming Communication and Democracy
