Women in Grassroots Communication: Effecting Global Social Change, Vol. 16 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Women's Participation in Communication: Elements for a Framework	3
2	Gender in Communication: Women's Contributions	30
3	Reinforcing Existing Indigenous Communication Skills: The Use of Dance in Tanzania	51
4	Cultural Distinctions in Communication Patterns of African-American Women: A Sampler	65
5	Notes for Reflection: Popular Women and Uses of Mass Media	84
6	Understanding Women's Grassroots Experiences in Producing and Manipulating Media	102
7	Process Video: Self-Reference and Social Change	131
8	A Process of Identity Deconstruction: Latin American Women Producing Video Stories	149
9	Losing Fear: Video and Radio Productions of Native Aymara Women in Bolivia	161
10	Shards of Remembrance: One Woman's Archaeology of Community Video	179
11	Being Women in the Popular Radio	192
12	The WEDNET Initiative: A Sharing Experience Between Researchers and Rural Women	221
13	Communicating for Empowerment: Women's Initiatives to Overcome Poverty in Rural Thailand and Newfoundland	235
14	Speak Magazine: Breaking Barriers and Silences	251
15	Women as Social Agents of Communication: Social Maternity and Leadership	260
	Glossary	279
	References	287
	Index	301
	About the Authors	313