WomenMediaAnalysis

Women and Media

Analysis, Alternatives and Action

Edited by Kamla Bhasin & Bina Agarwal
Illustrations by Simryn Gill
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in collaboration with Isis International and the Pacific and Asian Women's Forum (PAWF)
We are grateful to the New Delhi office of the Food and Agriculture Organisation Freedom From Hunger/Action for Development Programme for all its help in bringing this issue together.
We are also grateful to NORAD (the Norwegian Agency for International Development) who provided us with a generous grant for its publication.
The photograph for the. article 'Media as a' Political Statement' were taken by Sheba Chhachhi of Lifetools.

 

  Part 1: ANALYSIS    
  A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS   5
  Women, Development and Media   8
  Struggling for Space (India)   19
  Roles of Women as Portrayed in Children's Books (Sri Lanka)   26
  Packaged for consumption (Malaysia)   31
  The Women; Vamp or Victim (India)   37
  Mother Goddess Ascendant (India)   44
  Push-button Pornography (Australia)   48
  Obscenity, Media and the Law (India)   55
  Part 2: ACTION/ALTERNATIVES    
  Media and Rural Women (India)   63
  Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society (India)   69
  AWAG's Battle Against the Media (India)   74
  Consumer Education for Women (Malaysia)   78
  Creating One's Own Media (Pakistan)   82
  Voices of Women (Sri Lanka)   89
  Exploring the Outreach (Bangladesh)   92
  Media as a Political Statement (India)   94
  Screenprinting Workshops (India)   101
  Friends of Women (Thailand)   106
  Group Action for Change (India)   109
  Making News (Asia/India)   114
  Songs of Solidarity (India)   120
  RESOURCES AND NETWORKS   122
  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY   130