[Commlist] new book: Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices

Please find our book announcement:

*Book Announcement: Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging 
Representations and Articulating New Voices*


Maha Bashri, (maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae); Sameera (Ahmedstahmed /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)


I am pleased to announce the publication of our edited volume, /Minority 
Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating 
New Voices. /The book is published by Rowman &Littlefield.


/Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and 
Articulating New Voices/ presents research examining media portrayals of 
women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It 
provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are 
stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also 
their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status.


Our edited volume scrutinizes intersectionality through varied lens and 
perspectives. We examine Yassmin Abdel-Majied (being Yassmined) and 
Serena Williams in Australian media, then the politics of Black hair in 
South Africa, moving on to Orientalism and media (mis) representations 
of Muslim women living in the US and Great Britain, followed by coverage 
of Syrian and Afghan women refugees in Turkish media, onto film 
representations of Iranian women under the lens of Western media, as 
well as television representations of women with disabilities.


Our book provides insights into how minority women are represented /and 
/representing themselves in different media, including newspapers, 
television shows, films, and online platforms. Whilst their voices are 
frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in 
this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new 
discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves.

/“Minority Women and Western Media/ is an important study in the light 
of concerns relating to the experiences of minority women across the 
world’s media today and the challenges faced in relation to 
misrepresentation. It fulfills an important function, one that seeks to 
improve understandings and build relations in the context of wider 
social and political polarization given the specific concerns regarding 
the positions and realities of diverse women across the world today.” 
Tahir Abbas, Leiden University

“Maha Bashri and Sameera Ahmed’s thoroughly-researched collection is a 
must-read for anyone looking for fresh and robust international 
perspectives on the misrepresentation and underrepresention of minority 
women in the media. It’s a subject we can’t ignore any longer.”
— Bruce Mutsvairo, Auburn University



https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498599856/Minority-Women-and-Western-Media-Challenging-Representations-and-Articulating-New-Voices

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