Women and the Media in Jordan Gender, Power, Resistance

It centres women’s experiences and highlights their agency, disobedience, and efforts to negotiate and resist the limitations imposed by Jordanian patriarchy and, in doing so, it illustrates how gender, power, and resistance interplay through and within Jordanian media. Ebtihal Mahadeen is Lecturer...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mahadeen, Ebtihal
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
Subjects:
Sex
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03981nmm a2200361 u 4500
001 EB002013822
003 EBX01000000000000001176721
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 220411 ||| eng
020 |a 9789811693441 
100 1 |a Mahadeen, Ebtihal 
245 0 0 |a Women and the Media in Jordan  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b Gender, Power, Resistance  |c by Ebtihal Mahadeen 
250 |a 1st ed. 2022 
260 |a Singapore  |b Springer Nature Singapore  |c 2022, 2022 
300 |a XI, 150 p. 1 illus  |b online resource 
505 0 |a Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Jordanian Mediascape: Pressure and Release -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Jordanian Mediascape: Pressure and Release -- Chapter 3: Female Media Professionals: Potential and Limitations -- Chapter 4: Feminist Media Activism: Disobedience, Femininity, and Jordanianness -- Chapter 5: Representations of Honour-Related Femicide: Changing Discourses -- Chapter 6: Female Political Dissidence: Mediating and Gendering the Arab Spring in Jordan -- Chapter 7: Conclusion 
653 |a Communication 
653 |a Media and Communication Theory 
653 |a Culture 
653 |a Middle Eastern Culture 
653 |a Ethnology—Middle East  
653 |a Information theory 
653 |a Gender Studies 
653 |a Sex 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9344-1?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 305.3 
520 |a It centres women’s experiences and highlights their agency, disobedience, and efforts to negotiate and resist the limitations imposed by Jordanian patriarchy and, in doing so, it illustrates how gender, power, and resistance interplay through and within Jordanian media. Ebtihal Mahadeen is Lecturer in Gender and Media Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research addresses the interaction between gender, sexuality, and the media within the Jordanian context/MENA region. She has published extensively on the gendered politics of culture, mediated femininities and masculinities, and the media as sites of hegemony and resistance. 
520 |a It departs from an understanding of women’s status in Jordan as a highly charged subject, and a view of the media as not just a locale where tensions play out, but also an important arena for contestation and resistance. The book examines the dynamic relationship between women and the media in Jordan as it manifests at three key levels: labour, representation, and activism. To do so, it engages with wider issues: the political economy of the media, regulatory and legal frameworks, Jordanian women’s economic participation, the history of Jordanian feminist activism, gender-based violence, and the political context of the Arab Spring in Jordan. Through choice case studies, the book unpacks the complex role of legal, political, and social factors in shaping women’s relationship to the media.  
520 |a "Hugely important and relevant work that will be extensively debated and quoted for years to come" – Prof. Salam Al-Mahadin, Middle East University "In this highly readable investigation into day-to-day constraints and successes experienced by women in and through the media in Jordan, Ebtihal Mahadeen shines a light on intricate and overlapping challenges that apply more widely." – Prof. Naomi Sakr, Westminster University "This book has established Mahadeen’s position as one of the major analysts of Arab media and gender, and it is essential reading and reference work for students and academics who seek to combine Media Studies and Gender Studies." – Prof. Noha Mellor, University of Bedfordshire/University of Stockholm This book provides a feminist, critical study of how gender power relations are played out through and across multiple mediated arenas in contemporary Jordan.