Sex and Money Feminism and Political Economy in the Media Eileen R. Meehan and Ellen Riordan, editors		$22.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-3788-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3788-1 $67.50 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-3787-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3787-4
A revelatory look at the ways that gender, power, and the media are intertwined. It all comes down to sex and money: how the media are organized, how they work, what they say, who gets to say it, and to whom. That is the message this book delivers-and then parses for its meaning to society and culture. Forcefully and persuasively, this groundbreaking volume uses the media to show how questions of gender and economics are inextricably linked to issues of power in Western capitalist societies. Integrating political economy and feminism, it offers a new understanding of communication at the personal, experiential, institutional, and structural levels—and exposes all the subtle and complex ways in which sex and money are sutured into individuals' daily lives. “The provocatively titled Sex and Money is a long overdue and welcome treatment of an understudied topic: feminist political economy of media. Because of its ability to balance materialist analyses with theory, for its keen examinations of so many different aspects of the media environment, and for its inclusion of international and multicultural issues, this volume is a wonderful addition to both feminist media studies and political economy scholarship.” —Journal of Communication Contributors: Robin Andersen, Ellen Balka, Amy Beer, Carolyn M. Byerly, Ramona Curry, Fred Fejes, Nancy Hauserman, Michèle Martin, Stana Martin, Lisa McLaughlin, Roopali Mukherjee, Angela R. Record, Karen Ross, H. Leslie Steeves, Angharad N. Valdivia, Janet Wasko, and Justin Wyatt. Eileen R. Meehan is associate professor of media arts at the University of Arizona. Ellen Riordan is assistant professor of mass communication at Miami University, Ohio. 312 pages | 2 graphs, 2 tables | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2001 Commerce and Mass Culture Series, volume 7