Abstract
A request for a contribution to this collection on sexism in the media presents certain difficulties. The phrase itself has come to suggest a view of the representation of women, indeed of representation in general, now widely debated within the left and the women’s movement. To make a virtue of necessity, then, this article takes as its subject a brief review of that debate and an investigation of its implications for feminist analysis.
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Josephine King and Mary Stott (eds), Is This Your Life? Images of Women in the Media (London: Virago, 1977) p. 2.
Celia Pugh, ‘Why 51 Per Cent of the Population Can’t Be Kept in their Place’, Socialist Challenge, 26 January 1978, p. 7.
Vicki McKenzie, ‘Boobed Again!’, Observer, 5 February 1978, p. 22.
Ellen Willis, ‘The Conservatism of Ms.’ in Feminist Revolution (New York: New Paltz, 1975) pp. 173–4.
Elena Lieven, ‘Patriarchy’, Red Shift, Feminist Issue, 1977, p. 8.
Louis Althusser, ‘Freud and Lacan’ in Lenin and Philosophy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971) pp. 201–10.
John Goode, ‘Women and the Literary Text’ Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley (eds), The Rights and Wrongs of Women (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976) pp. 217–55.
Laura Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen, autumn 1975, p. 11.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own ( Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963 ) p. 35.
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© 1979 Carl Gardner, Tariq Ali, Dave Bailey, David Glyn, Gary Herman, Ian Hoare, Claire Johnston, Mandy Merck, Roger Protz, Chris Rawlence, Leon Rosselson, Geoffrey Sheridan, Gillian Skirrow, John Thackara, Raymond Williams
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Merck, M. (1979). Sexism in the Media?. In: Gardner, C. (eds) Media, Politics and Culture. Communications and Culture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16136-2_10
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