The editors, Maria Raicheva-Stover and Elza Ibroscheva, are to be congratulated on bringing together a collection of essays on the women/politics/media nexus which eschews the usual `Western' suspects in favour of scholarly explorations of a wide range of under-researched regions including South East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. This book will quickly become the must-have text for anyone interested ... Read morein developing a more nuanced and richer understanding of how those relations work in different parts of the world, including the patterns of similarity and instances of difference made manifest by a comparative edition such as this one.
Karen Ross, Professor of Media, Northumbria University, UK
Aided by the increasing prevalence of the Internet, democratization of knowledge and information, women are actively participating in the political, social, and economic sectors in the US and developing nations. This highly thought-provoking, multi-cultural, and multi-dimensional book sheds the needed light on the complex and impactful role of women in politics and media across the world. The editors are to be commended for their timely and superb contribution to the existing literature in women, media and politics.
Yahya R. Kamalipour, Professor of Media and International Communication and President of the Global Communication Association, Purdue University Calumet, USA
Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition is a timely and important book on the changing status of women in local, national and global politics and the central role that media play in shaping and framing them as 'gendered' political actors. Responding to calls for work on women politicians and media beyond an American orientation, editors Maria Raicheva-Stover and Elza Ibroscheva have assembled a superior collection of essays on gender, media and politics in emerging and transitioning democracies, many from scholars living and working in the Global South. This book should be of great value for anyone interested in media, representation, and political agency in non-Western countries in the era of 'globalization.'
Patrick D. Murphy, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Media and Communication, Temple University, USA
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