Table of Contents:
• Introduction 1. Feminist Development Communication : Mapping the Field/Kiran Prasad and Subhash R. Joshi Part - I : THEORIZING FEMINIST DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION 2. Communication and Women's Development : International Policy Debate and Analysis/Kiran Prasad 3. The Gender Technology and Power Paradox of Women's Empowerment in the era of ICTs in the Developing World/Kutoma J. Wakunuma 4. Re-visioning Development Communication in Africa : A Feminist Perspective/Christine Butegwa 5. 'Making every Voice Count'! Empowering Women through Mass Media in Southern Africa/Patricia A. Made 6. Writing the Female Body : Discourses and Transgressions on Arab Satellite Channels/Salani Al-Mahadin 7. Global Media and Eroticization of the Girl Child : Uphill Battle for Women's Empowerment in India/Kiran Prasad Part - II : REASSESSING FEMINIST DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION 8. Empowering Women through Information : The Bayja Experiment/Vasudha Joshi 9. The Impact of Two-Dimensional Women in the Media : A Psychological Perspective/Nandini Diwan 10. Women's Autonomy and Communication : Opportunities for Empowerment/Poornima Tapas 11. Dispelling Gender Myths in Advertising : A Critical Feminist Approach to Empowerment/Sagarika Colder 12. Women, Entrepreneurship and Communication : Intersections of Gender and Power/Mira K. Desai 13. Feminist Issues and Cultural Motifs in Tamil Films/D. Nivedhitha and I. Arul Aram Part - III : CONTEXTUALIZING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH 14. Women, Media and Health Information/Arbind Sinha 15. Innovative Strategies for Communicating Sex Education and Women's Health/Sanjeevanee Kelkar 16. Health Issues and Concerns in Women's Magazines/Waheeda Sultana 17. Reproductive Health Communication and Utilization of Health Services among Slum Women/M. Haripriya and Kiran Prasad