Women in Mass Communication

The Third Edition of Women in Mass Communication provides a new generation of students with an insightful examination of women in the journalism and mass communication professions. In this seminal volume, editors Pamela Creedon and Judith Cramer offer ideas and directions for improving the status of women—and men— working in the field.

This landmark volume has been considerably expanded and updated in this new edition. With particular emphasis on race and culture, leading scholars in the field provide compelling analyses of the ways in which feminist theory and perspectives have been incorporated into mass communication. They examine the status of women in the mass communication industries, from sporadic breakthroughs to the continuing sexism and economic inequities that pervade the profession.

Pam Creedon, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Iowa, previously directed the J-MC program at Kent State University for seven years and was a faculty member at The Ohio State University for 10 years. An accredited business communicator (ABC), she spent 15 years as an editor and public relations practitioner before entering academe. Currently president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with 190 member colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada and eight countries, she is a member of the Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Advisory Board.  She serves on the editorial boards of Public Relations Review and the Journal of Public Relations Research. She has edited two books published by Sage: Women in Mass Communication and Women, Media and Sport, and co-edited Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication by Erlbaum.  She is a member of International Advisory Board of the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.  She earned her M.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon and her B.A. from Mount Union College.