Women's absence from news photos: The role of tabloid strategies at elite and non-elite newspapers

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 979-998

  Stanley, Jason ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

content analysis; gender; inequality; newspaper; photograph; tabloid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869049841     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443712455559     Document Type: Article

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