I have started to blog on women’s issues at Gender Masala. My latest comments are about Il corpo delle donne, a documentary about the manipulative, humiliating image of women in Italian television, and about how the latest version of Star Trek reproduces the utdated sexual prejudices of the sixties. I am fascinated by how media portray women. Maybe it has to be with the fact that most media owners, filmmaker, senior editors and publishers are men, even in the best cases. For example, a report entitled “The Gender of Journalism”, authored by researcher Monika Djerf-Pierre, shows that even if half of Swedish journalists are women, three out of four leaders in the media industry are all men. That is Sweden, imagine what happens in Italy or Indonesia, not to mention undemocratic theocracies…
September 14, 2009
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