Woman as Spectator and Spectacle: Essays on Women and Media brings together
several critical readings on the correlations between media and women’s issues.
Based on the papers presented at a National Seminar on ‘Women in/and Media’
conducted at Osmania University, Hyderabad, this volume deals with issues
ranging from the portrayal of women in media to the need for a definitive gender
policy for the media.
The volume explores the role of women both as objects of media representations
as well as the producers and consumers of it. The articles interweave the
regional and linguistic reading of media texts with global feminist media
criticism. Through this, the ramifications