This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the general state of international communications, the book uses feminist political-economic and policy analyses to explore the globalization of media industries, including questions about women's employment and media content that is globally produced and consumed. A top-notch group of authors covers cases on online news, pornography and explicit material, political participation and democracy, policies for women's development, violence against women, labor practices and information workers, print media and publishing, public 'telecentres,' media coverage of HIV/AIDS, and more. Providing fresh feminist insights into international communication, this essential book shows the important strides taken toward women's justice in these areas and how far there is yet to go.

Contributions by: Salam Al-Mahadin, Alison Beale, Barbara Crow, Sheryl Cunningham, Margaret Gallagher, C Anthony Giffard, Ursula Huws, Yasmin Jiwani, Patricia Made, Catherine McKercher, Lisa McLaughlin, Vincent Mosco, Danielle Newton, Kiran Prasad, Jayne Rodgers, Kim Sawchuk, Zeenia Shaukut, Andrew Stevens, Nancy Van Leuven, Gillian Youngs