Sex, Money, Media: A Tribute and Political Reflection

摘要: Ellen Riordan & Eileen Meehan’s Sex and Money: Feminism Political Economy in the Media (2001) haunts imagination of many women drawn to study communication today. Their edited volume is best-known comprehensive overview feminist political economy Anglo-American scholarship from past 10 years includes work several Canadian scholars. The identified profound problems regulatory regimes, audience research, employment advocacy that remain largely unanswered this day. When filmmaker activist Rina Fraticelli brought her organization Women View Simon Fraser University’s School Communication 2008 as a potential partner, she was looking for catalyst revive discussions glass ceiling media persistent (and new) representation women. She alarmed by silence policy research failure raise any serious gender critique existing film TV institutions, interests, or actors. A steering committee, including Fraticelli, Marsha Newbery (a documentary doctoral candidate at SFU), authors (both SFU professors), Sara Diamond (president Ontario College Art Design University), Beth Seaton (adjunct professor women’s studies University British Columbia), over 50 other advisors, pulled together an international conference Vancouver October 14 16, 2010, attracting 170 attendees media, academy, not-for-profit sector. won seed funding SFU’s Faculty Communication, Technology, Columbia Film, City Vancouver, Centre Policy Studies on Culture Communities SFU, University. also led successful application win Social Sciences Humanities Research Council Canada funds digital-themed panels. Formal buy-in major institutions—the Department Heritage, CBC, Radio-television Telecommunications Commission— never achieved. However, organizations ultimately provided support