Women and the media in Jordan : gender, power, resistance / Ebtihal Mahadeen.

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Women and the media in Jordan : gender, power, resistance / Ebtihal Mahadeen.

9811693447 (ebook)
9789811693441 (electronic bk.)
9789811693434 (hardback)

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

©2022

English

1 online resource (xi, 150 pages).

10.1007/978-981-16-9344-1 doi

P94.5.W652 M34 2022eb

302.23082095695

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.

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