Women and the Media in Jordan

Gender, Power, Resistance
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-981-16-9346-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 221 g

Reihe: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia

This book provides a feminist, critical study of how gender power relations are played out through and across multiple mediated arenas in contemporary Jordan. 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. 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahadeen, Ebtihal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.