Rejecting the ‘F-word’: How ‘feminism’ and ‘feminists’ are understood in the newsroom North, Louise 2009, Rejecting the ‘F-word’: How ‘feminism’ and ‘feminists’ are understood in the newsroom, Journalism, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 739-757, doi: 10.1177/1464884909344479. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Rejecting the ‘F-word’: How ‘feminism’ and ‘feminists’ are understood in the newsroom Author(s) North, Louise Journal name Journalism Volume number 10 Issue number 6 Start page 739 End page 757 Total pages 19 Publisher Sage Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2009-12 ISSN 1464-8849 1741-3001 Keyword(s) female journalists feminism feminists journalism journalists news media newsroom culture Summary Feminist media scholarship in the past 30 years has focused on the representation of women in the media while an understanding of those who produce the representations has received little attention. In this article I am concerned with how some Australian journalists understand and experience the social/political movement of feminism and its advocates, feminists, as news sources and colleagues. I particularly focus on fleshing out how female journalists and those who identify as feminist discuss, negotiate, compromise and sometimes ‘survive’ a masculine newsroom culture. Moreover, I ask why it is that male and female journalists in my interviews — feminist-identified or not — resist or reject embracing or using the terms ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist’ in the context of the newsroom. A decade ago, Kay Schaffer astutely noted that feminism had become a ‘scare word’ in media discourse. I take this idea a step further by analysing more broadly how some journalists talk about ‘feminism’ and ‘feminists’. Language eng DOI 10.1177/1464884909344479 Field of Research 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2009, Sage Publications Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30064330 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 12:01:50 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 11:39:44 EST Wed, 18 Jun 2014, 15:54:13 EST Thu, 28 Aug 2014, 07:44:44 EST Wed, 24 Sep 2014, 12:14:11 EST Wed, 24 Sep 2014, 12:53:29 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 20:34:56 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 10 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 81 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 12:01:50 EST

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