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The Third Edition of Women in Mass Communication provides a new generation of students with an insightful examination of women in the journalism and mass communication professions. In this seminal volume, editors Pamela Creedon and Judith Cramer offer ideas and directions for improving the status of women—and men— working in the field.
Situating “The Other”: Women, Racial, and Sexual Minorities in the Media
Situating “The Other”: Women, Racial, and Sexual Minorities in the Media
I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue—my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.
The concept of “the Other,” long entangled with an understanding of the self in Western culture, is the focus of this chapter.1 The discussion reveals a journey by which the Other moved from the social and intellectual margins of 19th-century Europe into the cultural and academic mainstream of today, becoming increasingly politicized in the process. We will be particularly concerned ...
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