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Arab women in Arab news old stereotypes and new media

Historically, Western readers have often stereotyped Arab women as "passive" along a rigid and largely prejudicial binary of active-passive. When Arab women were traditionally portrayed in Western photojournalism, they appeared veiled and voiceless, their words spoken for them in captions...

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Main Authors: Al-Malki, Amal (Author), Kaufer, David (Author), Ishizaki, Suguru (Author), Dreher, Kira (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Doha Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation 2012
Subjects:
Women, Arab > Social conditions > 21st century
Women, Arab > Press coverage
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Table of Contents:
  • Searching for Arab females in Arab news
  • Thinking through a coding scheme
  • The coding scheme and experimental sample
  • Results of the coding study
  • Females up close
  • Anger & Resistance
  • Aspiration & Drive
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Ranking activeness
  • Empowerment
  • Barriers to empowerment
  • Ranking empowerment
  • Passivity
  • Fear & threat
  • Fear & threat in war zones
  • Uncommon stories of patriarchy/misogyny
  • Sadness & hopelessness.

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