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Using the master's tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women
JOURNAL: Gender & Development
VOLUME: 11 ISSUE: 1
THEME: Women Reinventing Globalisation
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AUTHOR:
Sanya Sarnavka
EDITED BY:
Joanna Kerr Caroline Sweetman
ISSN: 1355-2074 E-ISSN: 1364-9221
STOCK CODE: 002J1090
AVAILABILITY:
Available online only
PUBLISHER: Routledge
FORMAT:
Downloadable PDF
(pp: 3)
PUBLISHED:
May 2003
READERSHIP:
Activists and Campaigners, Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Professional and Practitioners,
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ABSTRACT
Worldwide, women are harnessing the power of mainstream media to change minds and hearts about women's human rights. In particular, they are focusing on ending violence against women as depicted in the media. Violence against women is here understood in two ways - not only as violence against women in society, but as violence committed in the media. By this we mean all misrepresentations, distorted reflections, sexism and silencing of women's voices, which violate women's right to equal access to public discourse. In a workshop at the AWID Forum, three leading feminist media analysts - from Croatia, India, and Uruguay - presented short video clips from their work, and discussed the successes and failures of women's human rights activists who use mainstream media as a vehicle for change. Their presentations were followed by a discussion about the successes and failures of women's human rights activists to engage with mainstream media as a vehicle for change.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not
necessarily reflect the policies of Oxfam GB
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