[Commlist] Book: Women's Work in Public Relations

**BOOK PUBLISHED ON WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES AND HISTORIES IN PUBLIC RELATIONS **

Women’s Work in Public Relations edited by Elizabeth Bridgen (Sheffield 
Hallam University, UK) and Sarah Williams (Buckinghamshire New 
University, UK) is published by Emerald on 25 March 2024 
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/women%C4%81s-work-in-public-relations/?k=9781804555392 
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The experience of women’s everyday lives in public relations roles 
across the world is under-recorded and under-explored. While the body of 
knowledge which explores public relations and corporate communications 
is growing, research that seeks to understand the working lives of women 
in promotional cultures is still limited. This collection prioritises 
women’s experiences and histories to understand more about public 
relations practices and the daily lives of women who carry out this work.

Demonstrating the breadth and range of feminist writing on women’s work, 
chapters step away from management-based accounts of public relations 
towards a space where marginalised voices and the lived experiences of 
women at all stages in their career are foregrounded. Discussing working 
lives in Brazil, Spain, Bosnia, Turkey, the UK and beyond, authors 
consider in rich detail female roles, experiences and paradoxes.

Reconceptualising human experience through a holistic feminist approach, 
/Women’s Work in Public Relations/ takes us behind the scenes to connect 
with women navigating the problems and contradictions of everyday 
working life.

Chapter list:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Because We never See it doesn’t mean It Never 
Happens; /Elizabeth Bridgen and Sarah Williams/
*SECTION 1: Marginalised Identities*
Chapter 2. PR Power in the 1990s: Sex, Sexuality, and Sexism – a UK 
Perspective; /Heather Yaxley and Sarah Bowman/
Box 1. Practitioner Story: The Shift from Unsupportive Sisterhood to 
Enlightened Empowerment – a Personal Perspective of Three Decades of 
Practice; /Diane Green/
Chapter 3. Unequal Opportunity: Experience and Expectation of 21st 
Century Maternity Provision in the Communications Workplace; /Susan 
Kinnear and Tess Lhermitte-Russell/
Chapter 4. “Just Like Any Other”: Public Relations Careers in the Adult 
Industries; /Elizabeth Bridgen/
*SECTION 2: Global Perspectives*
Chapter 5. Female Public Relations Academics in Spain; /Isabel 
Ruiz-Mora, Ileana Zeler, and Andrea Oliveira/
Box 2. Practitioner Story: Women in PR: Frontline Peacekeeping in 
Post-Conflict Bosnia; /Sheena Thomson/
Chapter 6. The Experiences of Women Professionals in Turkey: What is It 
like to Work for a Communication Agency?; /Begüm Ekmekçigil and Olesya 
Gorbunova Öner/
Box 3. Practitioner story: Stop Drinking the Dirty Water; /Jade Bilowol/
Chapter 7. “Always Being on”: Exploring the Experience of Burnout Among 
Female Professionals in the Australian Public Relations Industry; /Jade 
Bilowol, Jenny A Robinson, Deborah Wise, and Marianne Sison/
Chapter 8. Female PR Professors in Brazil: A Contemporary Liberal 
Feminist-Centred Study;/ Fabiana Gondim Mariutti, and Cleuza Gertrudes 
Gimenes Cesca/
Box 4. Practitioner Story: A Brazilian Woman Tale: Letter to Remind You 
to Have your Voice in Time and Space; /Fabiana Gondim Mariutti/
Chapter 9. Flex Appeal: Flexible Working, Women Public Relations 
Leaders, and My Own Experience as a Non-Parent Woman Leader in Public 
Relations; /Aimee Postle/
*SECTION 3: Developing Theoretical Frameworks to Make Sense of the Ordinary*
Chapter 10. Performing Professionalism: A Story in Three Acts; /Sarah 
Williams/
Box 5. Practitioner Story: How to have a 40-Year Career in PR as a 
Woman; /Bron Eames/
Chapter 11. A Multi-Generational Telling of Women’s Work in Public 
Relations; /Heather Yaxley/
Chapter 12. Women’s-Only Networking in PR: Discourse Analysis of the 
Entanglement of Barriers and Benefits; /Keren Darmon/
Chapter 13. Using Ethnography to Explore Women’s Work in Public 
Relations; /Sarah Williams///

Format: Hardback

Pagination: 288

Price:£80.00 $110.00 €95.00

Publication Date:  25th Mar 2024

ISBN: 9781804555392

The publishers are currently offering a discount of 30% off the price of 
the book – Use the code EME30 when ordering the ebook with ebooks.com

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