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Brunsdon, Charlotte. Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes. London: Routledge, 1997

• Analyses gender representations in popular drama, from soap opera and crime series to Hollywood film, and the meanings these offer — particularly to women viewers.

Carlsson, Ulla (ed.). Nordisk forskning om kvinnor och medier (Nordic research on women and the media). Nordicom 3/1993

• A Nordicom theme issue; articles on women and media from various angles.

Gray, Cynthia, Gill Branston and Stuart Allen (eds). News, Gender and Power. London: Routledge, 1998.

• Articles cover gender portrayal in print and television news; also how gender relations influence journalistic practice.

Images of Women in the Media: Report on existing research in the European Union. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1999

• Analysis of research since 1990 covering all media; gender and professional values, images of women and men, audience perceptions of gender portrayal.

Klaus, Elisabeth. Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung. (Gender studies in communication science).Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1998

• Recent studies on gender in media, covering radio, television and print.

NOS Gender Portrayal Department. Informative programmes. Media Portrayal of Women and Men. Hilversum: NOS, 1996.

• Quantitative data on gender portrayal in television and radio, and analysis of elements that contribute to portrayal patterns; recommendations for programme-makers.

Smelik, Anneke, with Rosemarie Buikema and Maaike Meijer. Effectief beeldvormen; theorie, analyse en praktijk van beeldvormingsprocessen. (Effective portrayal: theory, analysis, practice in portrayal processes). Assen: van Gorcum, 1999.

• Analysis of the influence of stereotypical images; ten-step programme to create more diverse images.

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Baehr, Helen and Ann Gray (eds). Turning It On: A Reader in Women and Media. London: Arnold, 1996

• Key writings on the subject, covering all media

Brunsdon, Charlotte, Julie D’Acci and Lynn Spigel (eds). Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

• Analyses cover mainly US television programmes, most of which are well known in Europe.

Goddard, Angela and Lindsay Patterson. Language and Gender. London: Routledge, 2000

• Examples from adverts, newspapers, magazines illustrate how ideas about gender roles are embedded in popular texts.

Mühlen-Achs, Gitta and Bernd Schorb (eds). Geschlecht und Medien. (Gender and media). München: KOPAED Verlag, 1995

• Collection of papers and studies on gender and media.

Nikunen, Kaarina, Iiris Ruoho and KatjaValaskivi. Nainen viihteenä, mies viihdyttäjänä - viihtyykö katsoja? (Man the Entertainer, Woman the Figure of Fun?). Publications of the Equality Committee of the Finnish Broadcasting Company, A:1/96. Helsinki: YLE, 1996

• Gender portrayal in Finnish television drama and entertainment programmes. English summary.

NOS Gender Portrayal Department. Mieke, hoe is de stand? Research Results for 1992 of the Portrayal Department. Hilversum: NOS, 1993

• Content analyses of radio and television; interview techniques in talk shows; activities of women and men in drama productions.

NOS Gender Portrayal Department. Mooi of meedogenloos. Beautiful or bold, the NOS Portrayal Department looks at Dutch drama. Hilversum: NOS, 1994

• Quantitative and qualitative representation in drama productions.

NOS Gender Portrayal Department. Who’s Whose Favourite. Viewer Identification with Female and Male Characters in Television Drama. Hilversum: NOS, 1995

• Survey of female and male viewers who watched selected episodes of two drama series.

NOS Gender Portrayal Department. An Equal Match. Gender Portrayal in Sports Programmes. Hilversum: NOS, 1998

• Aspects of gender portrayal in regular sports programmes were compared with those in coverage of the Olympic Games.

Perspectives of Women in Television. Research Working Paper IX. London: Broadcasting Standards Council, 1994

• Covers attitudes towards women’s portrayal, content analysis of prime time television, gender portrayal in news and current affairs programmes.

Sana, Elina (ed.). Naiset, miehet ja uutiset (Women, men and the news). Publications of the Equality Committee of the Finnish Broadcasting Company, A:1/95. Helsinki: YLE, 1995

• Gender portrayal in Finnish and Swedish-language radio and television news; male-female viewing amd listening habits; audience views on images in news. English summaries.

Weiderer, Monika. Das Frauen- und Männerbild im Deutschen Fernsehen. (Portrayal of women and men in German television). Regensburg: S. Roderer Verlag, 1995 (2^nd edn.)

• Analytical study of the images and representation of women and men in German television programmes.

AND, TO BE PUBLISHED IN AUTUMN 2000…

Results of the second Global Media Monitoring Project, which analysed gender portrayal in newspapers, radio and television news around the world on 1 February 2000. Obtainable from the World Association for Christian Communication, 357 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5QY.