A new book makes a devastating case about the damaging effects of unconscious bias in a world skewed heavily towards men.
- Chair in Feminist Media Studies, University of Strathclyde
The series did much to address the problems that crop up with portrayals of sexual crimes on television.
Filmmaker’s mea culpa is admirable but badly flawed.
New television series chillingly echoes the Jimmy Savile case – and how the public reacted.
The report into Savile BBC abuse points to disturbing echoes in how the media has covered what happened.
A new film questions the way universities handle complaints of sexual assault.
When will the news media learn that by making atrocities seem special and memorable, they are playing into the killer’s game?
From the five-yearly Global Media Monitoring Project, we know that women are not portrayed quite as badly in the media as they used to be. But will the 2015 project show that trend continuing?
New films by Kim Longinotto and Nick Broomfield reveal the shocking disposability of women in the sex trade in the US - and their struggle to be heard
Fifty Shades of Grey film opens this Valentine’s weekend to much fanfare but, perhaps tellingly, with few press previews in the UK. With one UK cinema chain reporting advance ticket sales worth £1.3m…
So finally The Sun has dropped the Page 3 topless model. In the absence of any announcement from the paper, it was a Marks & Spencer’s bra which heralded the new era on Monday January 19, covering…
From jokes to rape, there have been nearly 60,000 posts by women recounting their experiences of sexism and sexist violence since journalist and feminist Laura Bates launched her Everyday Sexism project…
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