Feminist PEC?
So, I’m reading Vince Mosco’s book on political economy of communication (again). He talks about feminism in relation to political economy in general (specifically about Marilyn Waring). But he doesn’t talk much about feminism in relation to the political economy of communication. So I wondered, what would that look like?
Here’s my first guess:
- It would investigate how women are involved in the cycle of production, distribution, and consumption of media products;
- It would investigate, particularly, how gender relations are entwined with power relations within production, distribution, and consumption of media products.
- It might continue to ask how women?s and children?s lives are being transformed by new information flows differently to men?s lives.
Haraway argues that it should go further; that feminist theory should also hold together race, sex/gender, and class together analytically (1991:129, cited in Mosco p239). Mosco suggests this might be done through an analysis of social movements. Taking Mosco’s framework, how are the processes of commodification, spatialisation, and structuration affecting women and children as contrasted to men?
I haven’t seen any real theoretical work on this but I can believe it’s out there. Otherwise a literature review of empirical studies might be very interesting!
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December 6th, 2004 at 6:19 pm
I think I’ve seen a paper first and a book then by Els Rommes, about the costruction of gender in Amsterdam’s DDS. I used the paper in my PhD. Maybe take a look at her pubs, impressive, http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/rommesCV.html.
While chasing a hyperlink to send, I came across http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=210&BookID=180, very interesting !
On a related matter (or not): I’d make Mosco compulsory reading for any Communications 101. I am reading The Digital sublime (http://www.frontlist.com/detail/026213439X) which is a welcome extension to hit ‘Mything links’ paper. Fascinating.
December 7th, 2004 at 9:34 am
Thanks Wainer - I see a lot of consumption stuff out there, which you’ve rightly highlighted (and another excellent book on that subject is Elaine Lally’s At Home With Computers,) but not a lot on production and distribution. Hm.
Wait: here’s a nice study from UNESCO by Margaret Gallagher, An unfinished story: Gender patterns in media employment (PDF). 1995. Here is a telling paragraph:
December 9th, 2004 at 10:09 am
Isn’t it amazing how things are there when you start to look? I offer some new sources on this topic (unread as yet):
Meehan, Eileen R. and Ellen Riordan (2002) Sex and Money: Feminism and political economy in the media Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Riordan, Ellen (2004). Feminist theory and the political economy of communication. In Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks (eds.) Toward a political economy of culture: Capitalism and communication in the twenty-first century Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield.
What they say is as yet unknown.
Ellen Riordan apparently teaches somewhere called Gustavus Adolphus college in Saint Peter, Minnesota. According to the website: “Gustavus Adolphus College is a church-related, residential liberal arts college firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage. The College aspires to be a community of persons from diverse backgrounds who respect and affirm the dignity of all people. It is a community where a mature understanding of the Christian faith and lives of service are nurtured and students are encouraged to work toward a just and peaceful world.” - from the Gustavus Mission Statement
It sounds like a different world from LSE.