Marian Meyers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marian Meyers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marian |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyers |
| SIGNATURE | MEYERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
African American Women in the Newsroom
Previous studies have examined the experiences of either women or minority journalists to determine whether newsroom diversity makes a difference in news content, concluding that the gender and race of newsworkers does not substantially alter the news. However, they have not looked at the work practices and experiences of African American women journalists to determine whether their newswork challenges or reinforces dominant journalistic construc…
The War on Academic Women
This article situates academic women within the context of a broader, societal war on women. It argues that the ideologies underlying postfeminism and neoliberalism intersect within the academy to deny, obscure, and delegitimize the continuing and systemic gender discrimination and sexism that so many women in higher education face. It also seeks to reclaim the use of terms such as sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy, which date to the second wave o…
African American Women in the News
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and crack mothers to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates the complex and often contradictory images of African American women in news media through detailed studies of national and local news, the mainstream a…
News Coverage of Violence Against Muslim Women
This study examines news coverage of violence against Muslim women in English-language newspapers in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Using discourse analysis, it asks whether coverage reflects traditional Islamic or Islamic feminist perspectives. The findings indicate the news overwhelmingly reflected traditional Islamic beliefs concerning the secondary status of Muslim women. Coverage minimized the violence, blamed victims, omitted women's voi…
African American women and violence
This study uses discourse analysis to examine the representation of violence against African American women in local TV news coverage of Freaknik, an annual “spring break” ritual that drew African American college students from throughout the country to Atlanta, Georgia in the 1990s. It draws on Black feminist theory in its examination of the ways that gender, race, and class intersected to shape the representation of the victims, the perpetrator…
Crack Mothers in the News
This study examines the story the news tells about “crack mothers” through a narrative analysis of a newspaper series, exploring the major themes and character types from a perspective informed by critical cultural studies and feminist theory. It argues that news studies cannot adequately explore race within representation without also addressing gender and class. The focus of the series analyzed here was the battle to save the children of crack …
Living with Martha Stewart Media
In-depth interviews with 10 women who are Martha Stewart fans addressed the roles Stewart and her media products play in their lives and why and how they use her media products. Stewart and her media products appear to play 3 main roles in the lives of these women: They encourage the fantasy of an upper-class lifestyle of elegance and luxury while providing an escape from their daily lives; they validate the women's interest in domesticity by mak…
News Coverage of Violence against Women
This original new work demonstrates the troubling evidence that news coverage in American cities routinely depicts criminal violence against females differently than males. News Coverage of Violence Against Women discusses this tendency and how it perpetuates traditional, inegalitarian stereotyping of both men and women. Author Marian Meyers combines original research with qualitative textual analysis to disclose the underlying ideology, myths, a…
News of Battering
Journal Article News of Battering Get access Marian Meyers Marian Meyers 1Marian Meyers is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 2, June 1994, Pages 47–63, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00676.x Published: 07 February 2006
Defining Homosexuality
This paper examines news coverage in the Washington Post of President Clinton's attempt to repeal the ban on gay men and lesbians in the military. The analysis found that coverage presented a male, heterosexist discourse which reinforced homophobic myths and stereotypes, promoted militarism and rendered women invisible while legitimating arguments against repeal of the ban. The analysis also demonstrates how gender, race, class and sexual orienta…
Reporters and beats
This article, based on a case study of newspaper coverage of the Midwestern “farm crisis,” argues that the reporter's beat and subjectivity are factors in the creation of ideological diversity in the news. While drawing upon both British cultural studies and traditional sociological theories of the news, the article criticizes both interpretive studies, for implying that resistance is found only within the decoding capabilities of the audience, a…
African American Women in the Newsroom
Previous studies have examined the experiences of either women or minority journalists to determine whether newsroom diversity makes a difference in news content, concluding that the gender and race of newsworkers does not substantially alter the news. However, they have not looked at the work practices and experiences of African American women journalists to determine whether their newswork challenges or reinforces dominant journalistic construc…
Defining Homosexuality
This paper examines news coverage in the Washington Post of President Clinton's attempt to repeal the ban on gay men and lesbians in the military. The analysis found that coverage presented a male, heterosexist discourse which reinforced homophobic myths and stereotypes, promoted militarism and rendered women invisible while legitimating arguments against repeal of the ban. The analysis also demonstrates how gender, race, class and sexual orienta…
Reporters and beats
This article, based on a case study of newspaper coverage of the Midwestern “farm crisis,” argues that the reporter's beat and subjectivity are factors in the creation of ideological diversity in the news. While drawing upon both British cultural studies and traditional sociological theories of the news, the article criticizes both interpretive studies, for implying that resistance is found only within the decoding capabilities of the audience, a…
African American Women in the News
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and crack mothers to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates the complex and often contradictory images of African American women in news media through detailed studies of national and local news, the mainstream a…
Crack Mothers in the News
This study examines the story the news tells about “crack mothers” through a narrative analysis of a newspaper series, exploring the major themes and character types from a perspective informed by critical cultural studies and feminist theory. It argues that news studies cannot adequately explore race within representation without also addressing gender and class. The focus of the series analyzed here was the battle to save the children of crack …
The War on Academic Women
This article situates academic women within the context of a broader, societal war on women. It argues that the ideologies underlying postfeminism and neoliberalism intersect within the academy to deny, obscure, and delegitimize the continuing and systemic gender discrimination and sexism that so many women in higher education face. It also seeks to reclaim the use of terms such as sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy, which date to the second wave o…
News Coverage of Violence Against Muslim Women
This study examines news coverage of violence against Muslim women in English-language newspapers in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Using discourse analysis, it asks whether coverage reflects traditional Islamic or Islamic feminist perspectives. The findings indicate the news overwhelmingly reflected traditional Islamic beliefs concerning the secondary status of Muslim women. Coverage minimized the violence, blamed victims, omitted women's voi…
Reporters and beats
This article, based on a case study of newspaper coverage of the Midwestern “farm crisis,” argues that the reporter's beat and subjectivity are factors in the creation of ideological diversity in the news. While drawing upon both British cultural studies and traditional sociological theories of the news, the article criticizes both interpretive studies, for implying that resistance is found only within the decoding capabilities of the audience, a…
News of Battering
Journal Article News of Battering Get access Marian Meyers Marian Meyers 1Marian Meyers is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 2, June 1994, Pages 47–63, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00676.x Published: 07 February 2006
Defining Homosexuality
This paper examines news coverage in the Washington Post of President Clinton's attempt to repeal the ban on gay men and lesbians in the military. The analysis found that coverage presented a male, heterosexist discourse which reinforced homophobic myths and stereotypes, promoted militarism and rendered women invisible while legitimating arguments against repeal of the ban. The analysis also demonstrates how gender, race, class and sexual orienta…
News Coverage of Violence against Women
This original new work demonstrates the troubling evidence that news coverage in American cities routinely depicts criminal violence against females differently than males. News Coverage of Violence Against Women discusses this tendency and how it perpetuates traditional, inegalitarian stereotyping of both men and women. Author Marian Meyers combines original research with qualitative textual analysis to disclose the underlying ideology, myths, a…
Living with Martha Stewart Media
In-depth interviews with 10 women who are Martha Stewart fans addressed the roles Stewart and her media products play in their lives and why and how they use her media products. Stewart and her media products appear to play 3 main roles in the lives of these women: They encourage the fantasy of an upper-class lifestyle of elegance and luxury while providing an escape from their daily lives; they validate the women's interest in domesticity by mak…
African American women and violence
This study uses discourse analysis to examine the representation of violence against African American women in local TV news coverage of Freaknik, an annual “spring break” ritual that drew African American college students from throughout the country to Atlanta, Georgia in the 1990s. It draws on Black feminist theory in its examination of the ways that gender, race, and class intersected to shape the representation of the victims, the perpetrator…
Crack Mothers in the News
This study examines the story the news tells about “crack mothers” through a narrative analysis of a newspaper series, exploring the major themes and character types from a perspective informed by critical cultural studies and feminist theory. It argues that news studies cannot adequately explore race within representation without also addressing gender and class. The focus of the series analyzed here was the battle to save the children of crack …
News Coverage of Violence Against Muslim Women
This study examines news coverage of violence against Muslim women in English-language newspapers in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Using discourse analysis, it asks whether coverage reflects traditional Islamic or Islamic feminist perspectives. The findings indicate the news overwhelmingly reflected traditional Islamic beliefs concerning the secondary status of Muslim women. Coverage minimized the violence, blamed victims, omitted women's voi…
The War on Academic Women
This article situates academic women within the context of a broader, societal war on women. It argues that the ideologies underlying postfeminism and neoliberalism intersect within the academy to deny, obscure, and delegitimize the continuing and systemic gender discrimination and sexism that so many women in higher education face. It also seeks to reclaim the use of terms such as sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy, which date to the second wave o…
African American Women in the News
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and crack mothers to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates the complex and often contradictory images of African American women in news media through detailed studies of national and local news, the mainstream a…
African American Women in the Newsroom
Previous studies have examined the experiences of either women or minority journalists to determine whether newsroom diversity makes a difference in news content, concluding that the gender and race of newsworkers does not substantially alter the news. However, they have not looked at the work practices and experiences of African American women journalists to determine whether their newswork challenges or reinforces dominant journalistic construc…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works)