TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Over the past few years, the electronic media, as represented by the internet version of print media and independent blogs of journalists, has become a major player in the coverage of incidents related to violence against women. While this has brought forward issues of violence and specifically rape prominently into the public sphere, the media portrayal of women has often been as victims or victims who are somehow responsible for the violence against them. Such portrayal has been repeatedly challenged by feminists. Using data from 572 national and international English media reports for a six-month period (from December 2012 to April 2013) the coverage of the protests about the 2012 case of gang rape and eventual death of Jyoti Singh Pandey in India’s capital city, New Delhi, is examined in this chapter. Drawing from past research, three main frames are discerned in the portrayal of women in the reports: mainstreaming gender, endangered woman, and the ungendered woman. Media portrayals of these three frames by three broadly categorized actors most prominently covered by the media reports are analyzed: activists, state representatives or political actors, and ordinary citizens. The findings suggest that while some reports allude to women’s agency and rights particularly when they cover feminist activists, women’s agency is marginalized in the debates around safety and protection for women when other actors (such as state representatives or political actors, and ordinary citizens) are considered. Indian women’s rights have been reduced to passive messages negating the broader politics of the contemporary women’s movement.
VL  - 26
SN  - 978-1-78754-329-4, 978-1-78754-330-0/1529-2126
DO  - 10.1108/S1529-212620180000026009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620180000026009
AU  - Chaudhuri Soma
AU  - Krishnan Preethi
AU  - Subramaniam Mangala
ED  - Marcia Texler Segal
ED  - Vasilikie Demos
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Mainstreaming Gender, Endangered, Ungendered? Analysis of Media Reports of the 2012 Case of Rape in India*
T2  - Gender and the Media: Women’s Places
T3  - Advances in Gender Research
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 125
EP  - 140
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -