Theorizing the form of media coverage over time

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 511-527

  Boyle, Elizabeth Heger ^a   Hoeschen, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MASS MEDIUM; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL WELFARE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL WELFARE; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0035437971     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01778.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Altheide, David L. 1984. "Media Hegemony: A Failure of Perspective." Public Opinion Quarterly 48:476-490.
2. Barker-Benfield, Graham J. 1976. "A Historical Perspective on Women's Health Care." Women and Health 1:13-20.
3. Barker-Plummer, Bernadette. 1995. "News as a Political Resource: Media Strategies and Political Identity in the U.S. Women's Movement, 1966-1975." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 12:306-324.
4. Berkovitch, Nitza, and Karen Bradley. 1999. "The Globalization of Women's Status: Consensus/Dissensus in the World Polity." Sociological Perspectives 42:481-498.
5. Best, Joel. 1991. "'Road Warriors' on 'Hair-Trigger Highways': Cultural Resources and the Media's Construction of the 1987 Freeway Shootings Problem." Sociological Inquiry 61:327-345.
6. Bhatia, Shyam. 1994. "The Cut that Tore a Veil of Tears." Observer, October 9, p. 22.
7. Boli, John, and George M. Thomas, eds. 1999. Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
8. Boulware-Miller, Kay. 1985. "Female Circumcision: Challenges to the Practice as a Human Rights Violation." Harvard Women's Law Journal 8:155-177.
9. Boyle, Elizabeth Heger, Barbara McMorris, and Mayra Gómez. In press. "Local Conformity to International Norms: The Case of Female Genital Cutting." International Sociology.
10. Boyle, Elizabeth Heger, and John W. Meyer. 1998. "Modern Law as a Secularized and Global Model: Implications for the Sociology of Law." Soziale Welt 49:213-232.
11. Boyle, Elizabeth Heger, and Sharon Preves. 2000. "National Lawmaking as an International Process: The Case of Anti-Female-Genital-Cutting Laws." Law and Society Review 34:401-432.
12. Brennan, Katherine. 1989. "The Influence of Cultural Relativism on International Human Rights Law: Female Circumcision as a Case Study." Law and Inequality 7:367-398.
13. Daly, Mary. 1978. Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon.
14. Eltahawy, Mona. 1995. "Violence Against Women Comes Out of Shadows." Reuters World Service, May 23.
15. Etienne, Margareth. 1995. "Addressing Gender-Based Violence in an International Context." Harvard Women's Law Journal 18:139-170.
16. Fischer, Joerg. 1994. "CNN Video Triggers Debate on Female Circumcision." Deutsche Presse-Agentur, October 26.
17. Fishman, Mark. 1988. Manufacturing the News. Austin: University of Texas Press.
18. Gamson, William A., David Croteau, William Hoynes, and Theodore Sasson. 1992. "Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality." Annual Review of Sociology 18:373-393.
19. Gans, Herbert. 1979. "Deciding What's News: Story Suitability." Society 16:65-77.
20. Gauch, Sara. 1995. "Modern Egypt Says Ancient Rite is Wrong." Chicago Tribune, September 10, p. 1.
21. Gitlin, Todd. 1980. The Whole World Is Watching. Berkeley: University of California Press.
22. Gray, Herman. 1987. "Race Relations as News: Content Analysis." American Behavioral Scientist 30:381-396.
23. Hamelink, Cees J. 1995. "Information Imbalance across the Globe." Pp. 293-307 in Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction, 2d ed., edited by John Downing, Ali Mohammadi, and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
24. Harris, Phil. 1981. Reporting Southern Africa: Western News Agencies Reporting from Southern Africa. Belgium: Shoeck-Ducaja and Son (UNESCO Publications).
25. Herman, Edward. 1995. "Media in the U.S. Political Economy." Pp. 77-93 in Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction, 2d ed., edited by John Downing, Ali Mohammadi, and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
26. Hilgartner, Stephen, and Charles Bosk. 1988. "The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: A Public Arenas Model." American Journal of Sociology 94:53-78.
27. Hosken, Fran. 1981. "Female Genital Mutilation in the World Today: A Global Perspective." International Journal of Health Services 11:415-430.
28. Johnson, Michelle. 2000. "Becoming a Muslim, Becoming a Person: Female 'Circumcision,' Religious Identity, and Personhood in Guinea-Bissau." Pp. 215-233 in Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change, edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers.
29. Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in International Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
30. Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny. 1989. Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey into Female Genital Mutilation. New York: Harrington Park Press.
31. Mann, Judy. 1994. "When Journalists Witness Atrocities." Washington Post, September 23, p. E3.
32. -. 1995. "A Welcome Reversal." Washington Post, December 27, p. F13.
33. McCarthy, John D., Clark McPhail, and Jackie Smith. 1996. "Media Bias in the Coverage of Washington, DC, Demonstrations." American Sociological Review 61:478-499.
34. Meghalli, Nabil. 1994. "Circumcision Persists as Insult and Injury to Feminity." Deutsche Presse-Agentur, September 12.
35. Meyer, John W., John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco Ramirez. 1997. "World Society and the Nation-State." American Journal of Sociology 103:144-181.
36. Meyer, Philip, and Stanley T. Wearden. 1984. "The Effects of Public Ownership on Newspaper Companies: A Preliminary Inquiry." Public Opinion Quarterly 48:564-577.
37. Micucci, Dana. 1997. "What Do We Want? Equality. And When Do We Want It? Now." Chicago Tribune, March 23, p. 1.
38. Nadelmann, Ethan A. 1990. "Global Prohibition Regimes: The Evolution of Norms in International Society." International Organization 44:479-526.
39. Said, Edward. 1978. Covering Islam. New York: Pantheon.
40. -. 1993. Culture and Imperialism. London: Chatto and Windus.
41. Savelsberg, Joachim. 1994. "Knowledge, Domination, and Criminal Punishment." American Journal of Sociology 99:911-943.
42. Schiller, Herbert I. 1993. "Transnational Media: Creating Consumers Worldwide." Journal of International Affairs 47:47-58.
43. Simms, Shelley. 1993. "What's Culture Got to Do With It? Excising the Harmful Tradition of Female Genital Mutilation." Harvard Law Review 106:1944-1961.
44. Snow, David A., and Robert D. Benford. 1992. "Master Frames and Cycles of Protest." Pp. 133-154 in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, edited by Aldon Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
45. Todorov, Tzvetan. 1984. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other. New York: Harper and Row.
46. Toubia, Nahid 1995. A Call for Global Action. New York: RAINBO.
47. Turner, Bryan S. 1994. Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism. London: Routledge.
48. U.S. Department of State (USDS). 1999. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999: Africa, http://www.state.gov/www/global/human.rights/1999_hrp_report.
49. Winter, Bronwyn. 1994. "Women, the Law, and Cultural Relativism in France: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19:939-974.
50. World Health Organization (WHO). 1998. Female Genital Mutilation: An Overview. Geneva: WHO.