Women and journalism / Deborah Chambers, Linda Steiner and Carole Fleming.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-263) and index.

Authors* biographies
Acknowledgements
A note on usage
Introduction: women and journalism in the United States and Britain
Women journalists as spectacle
*But I don't do weddings': women's entrance into the profession
Relevant sources on women in journalism
Education and training of women for journalism
Women's contemporary status in journalism
Women and public discourse in the age of new media
1 Early women journalists: 1850-1945
The rise of women journalists
The impact of the New Journalism on women
Women in the black press
'Journalism for women'
Radio broadcasting: a voice for women?
Conclusion
2 Women journalists in the post-war period
Women at British newspapers
Women at US newspapers
Women in radio in Britain
Women in radio in the United States
Women in television in Britain
Women in television in the United States
Conclusion
3 The education and training of women journalists
Training and education in the United States
Training and education in Britain
Early efforts of women to teach journalism in the United States
The representation of women in journalism textbooks
Contemporary opportunities and journalism education in the
United States
Developments in British education and training
Conclusion
4 'One of the boys'? Women's experiences of the glass ceiling
Setting the scene: problems and issues raised about women's
career progression
Career patterns in journalism in the United States
Career patterns in journalism in Britain
Professional and union organizations
Gender segregation in specific fields of journalism
Women in decision-making positions
Sexism in the newsroom
Conclusion
5 Gendered newsroom cultures and values
Gender and professional values
Broadening the definition of news
Journalism awards
'Humanizing' the news?
Sports journalism
llie under-representation of women in political news
Strategies for dealing with masculine newsroom cultures
Conclusion
6 Challenges to sexism and discrimination
Early challenges
Women begin to organize
Transatlantic allies at press conferences
Storming the locker room and stadium press box
Laws and legislative action in the United States
British initiatives for gender equality
Examples of challenges in the United States
'Too old, too unattractive, and not sufficiently deferential'
Conclusion
7 The 'first wave' of women's alternative journalism
The American moral reform and suffrage press
The British suffrage press
IVim-of-the-century efforts and lessons
Conclusion
8 Women's alternative print journalism of the 'second'
and 'third' waves
Second-wave American periodicals
British feminist periodicals
The lesbian press and status of lesbian journalists
Women's alternative news periodicals from 1980 to the present
Recent trends in alternative and feminist print journalism
Conclusion
9 Women's alternative media in broadcasting and the Internet
Women's alternative radio
Women's alternative television program mes
The US cable experiment
Women's Internet news and information groups
Conclusion
10 Women war correspondents
War reporting in the nineteenth century
Reporting on world wars
Reporting the Vietnam War
Women war correspondents between the 1970s and 1990s
Women reporting on the war in Afghanistan
Conclusion: women war correspondents' conspicuous presence
11 'Postmodern journalism' and its implications for women
Confessional joumaUsm and 'therapy news'
The sexualization of news
Judging women TV news presenters by their looks
Post-feminist journalism
Women professionals' views of new trends in journalism
Conclusion
12 Conclusion: women, journalism and new media
Features of the gendered structuring of journalism
Gender and on-line journalism
Mainstream journalism and interactivity
Women, the Internet and the public sphere
Notes
Bibliography