Woman as Spectator and Spectacle: Essays on Women and Media brings together several critical readings on the correlations between media and women’s issues. Based on the papers presented at a National Seminar on ‘Women in/ and Media’ conducted at Osmania University Hyderabad this volume deals with issues ranging from the portrayal of women in media to the need for a definitive gender policy for the media. The volume explores the role of women both as objects of media representation as well as the producers and consumers of it. The articles interweave the regional and linguistic readings of media texts with global feminist media criticism. Through this the ramifications of media globalization on women’s issues are analyzed thus giving voice to specific local developments and their impact on women and media

Introduction;; Part I: Media and Gender (In)Justice; 1. Wanted: A Gender Perspective on Media Globalisation; 2. Media Texts for Women by Women; 3. Media-ting ‘Patriarchy’; 4. The Endangered Gender: Images of Women in Advertisements; 5. Women in Visual Media: The Spectator vs. the Spectacle; 6. Two Faces of Women on Television: Need for a Gender Policy;; Part II: Farming Women; 7. Images of Women in India Soap Operas; 8. “People Said I Created Pornography”: Sexuality the Gaze and Rituparno Ghosh; 9. Women’s Issue in Telugu Films: Limits of Social Reform; 10. A Case Study of the Reel-life ‘Wimin’ in the Fire andGirlfriend: Fruition to Miso Phallicism from mere Feminism; 11. Gender at Cyberspace: Who’s Online; 12. Women in Media: The Politics of Representation;

Contributed articles presented at a national seminar on "Women in/and Media" on women in mass media conducted at Osmania University, Hyderabad.