Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Website	[ clas.uiowa.edu/sjmc/people/meenakshi-gigi-durham%20University%20of%20Iowa%20College%20of%20Liberal%20Arts%20and%20Sciences]]
Academic background
Thesis title	Is it all in the telling?: A study of the role of text schemas and schematic text structures in the recall and comprehension of printed news stories
Thesis url	https://www.worldcat.org/title/is-it-all-in-the-telling-a-study-of-the-role-of-text-schemas-and-schematic-text-structures-in-the-recall-and-comprehension-of-printed-news-stories/oclc/49246593&referer=brief_results
Thesis year	1990
Academic work
Institutions	University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Main interests	Media and the politics of the body

Meenakshi Gigi Durham, is the (joint) professor of gender, women’s and sexuality studies at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.^[1][2]

Durham is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication Inquiry,^[3] and sits on the editorial board of Sexualization, Media, and Society.^[4]

Education

Durham earned her Ph.D. (1990) from the University of Florida.^[5]

Bibliography

Books

• Durham, Meenakshi G. (1990). Is it all in the telling?: A study of the role of text schemas and schematic text structures in the recall and comprehension of printed news stories (Ph.D. thesis). University of Florida. OCLC 49246593.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2009). The Lolita effect: the media sexualization of young girls and what we can do about it (2nd ed.). Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 9781590205945.

See also: Lolita and the sexualization of childhood. Pajamas Media. Retrieved 19 July 2013.

• Durham, Meenakshi G.; Kellner, Douglas M. (2012). Media and cultural studies: keyworks. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780470658086.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. TechnoSex: technologies of the body, mediated corporealities, and the quest for the sexual self. Under contract with University of Michigan Press.

Chapters in books

• Durham, Meenakshi G. (1999), "Out of the Indian diaspora: mass media, femininity, and adolescence between two cultures", in Mazzarella, Sharon; Pecora, Norma O., Growing up girls: popular culture and the construction of identity (third ed.), New York: Peter Lang, pp. 193–208, ISBN 9780820440217.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2002), "Girls, media, and the negotiation of sexuality: a study of race, class and gender in adolescent girls' peer groups", in Williams, Christine; Stein, Arlene, Sexuality and gender, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, pp. 304–320, ISBN 9780631222729.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2007), "Myths of race and beauty in teen magazines: a semiological analysis", in Creedon, Pamela J.; Cramer, Judith, Women in mass communication (3rd ed.), Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 233–246, ISBN 9781412936958.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2007), "Sex in the transnational city: discourses of gender, body and nation in the "New Bollywood"", in Creekmur, Corey; Sidel, Mark, Cinema, law, and the state in Asia, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 45–62, ISBN 9781403977519.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2009), "Ethnic chic and the displacement of South Asian female sexuality in U.S. media", in Hammer, Rhonda; Kellner, Douglas, Media/cultural studies: critical approaches, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 501–515, ISBN 9780820495262.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2011), "Constructing the "new ethnicities": media, sexuality and diaspora identity in the lives of South Asian immigrant girls", in Dines, Gail; Humez, Jean, Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 389–398, ISBN 9781412974417.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2012), "Girls, media, and the negotiation of sexuality: a study of race, class and gender in adolescent girls' peer groups", in Shaw, Susan; Lee, Janet, Women's voices, feminist visions: classic and contemporary readings (fifth ed.), New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780073512327.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2013), "Chapter 8 Body matters: resuscitating the corporeal in a new media environment", in Carter, Cynthia; McLaughlin, Lisa, Current perspectives in feminist media studies, London New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415540117.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2013), "Children's technologized bodies: mapping mixed reality.", in Lemish, Dafna, The Routledge international handbook of children, adolescents and media, London New York: Routledge, pp. 156–164, ISBN 9780415783682.

Journal articles

• Durham, M. G. (1996). "The taming of the shrew: women's magazines and the regulation of desire". Journal of Communication Inquiry (Sage) 20 (1): 18–31.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (March 1998). "Dilemmas of desire: the representation of adolescent sexuality in two teen magazines". Youth & Society (Sage) 29 (3): 369–389. doi:10.1177/0044118X98029003005.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (March 1998). "Revolutionizing the teaching of magazine design". Journalism & Mass Communication Educator (Sage) 53 (1): 23–32. doi:10.1177/107769589805300104.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (May 1998). "On the relevance of standpoint epistemology to the practice of journalism: the case for "strong objectivity"". Communication Theory (Wiley) 8 (2): 117–140. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1998.tb00213.x.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (June 1999). "Girls, media, and the negotiation of sexuality: a study of race, class and gender in adolescent girls' peer groups". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (Sage) 76 (2): 193–216. doi:10.1177/107769909907600202.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (October 1999). "Articulating adolescent girls' resistance to patriarchal discourse in popular media". Women's Studies in Communication (Taylor and Francis) 22 (2): 210–229. doi:10.1080/07491409.1999.10162421.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (2001). "Adolescents, the internet, and the politics of gender: a feminist case analysis". Race, Gender & Class (JSTOR) 8 (4): 20–41.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (May 2001). "Displaced persons: symbols of South Asian feminity and the returned gaze in U.S. media culture". Communication Theory (Wiley) 11 (2): 201–217. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.2001.tb00239.x.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (January 2003). "The girling of America: reflections on gender and popular communication". Popular Communication (Taylor and Francis) 1 (1): 23–31. doi:10.1207/S15405710PC0101_4.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (June 2004). "Constructing the "new ethnicities": media, sexuality and diaspora identity in the lives of South Asian immigrant girls". Critical Studies in Media Communication (Taylor and Francis) 21 (2): 140–161. doi:10.1080/07393180410001688047. Pdf.
• Durham, Meenakshi G.; Oates, Thomas P. (September 2004). "The mismeasure of masculinity: the male body, 'race' and power in the enumerative discourses of the NFL Draft". Patterns of Prejudice (Taylor and Francis) 38 (3): 301–320. doi:10.1080/0031322042000250475.
• Durham, Meenakshi G.; Schaefer, Peter (March 2007). "On the social implications of invisibility: the iMac G5 and the effacement of the technological object". Critical Studies in Media Communication (Taylor and Francis) 24 (1): 39–56. doi:10.1080/07393180701214520.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (February 2008). "Media controversies around girls' sexuality (in "Girls studies and book review")". Journal of Children and Media (Taylor and Francis) 2 (1): 79–80. doi:10.1080/17482790701733237.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (March 2011). "Body matters: resuscitating the corporeal in a new media environment.". Feminist Media Studies (Taylor and Francis) 11 (1): 53–60. doi:10.1080/14680777.2011.537027.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (December 2011). "Blood, lust and love: gender violence in the "Twilight" phenomenon". Journal of Children and Media (Taylor and Francis) 6 (3): 1–19. doi:10.1080/17482798.2011.619549.
• Durham, Meenakshi G. (February 2013). ""Vicious assault shakes Texas town": the politics of gender violence in The New York Times' coverage of a schoolgirl's gang rape". Journalism Studies (Taylor and Francis) 14 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2012.657907.

See also

• Journal of Communication Inquiry
• Gender studies
• Journalism
• Mass communication
• Mass media
• Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies)
• Race
• Sexualization
• Youth culture
• University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

References

1. Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Joint Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies (profile)". School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
2. Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Meenakshi Gigi Durham (profile)". PJ Media. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
3. "Editorial board: Journal of Communication Inquiry". Sage. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
4. "Editorial board: Sexualization, Media, and Society". Sage. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
5. Durham, Meenakshi G. (1990). Is it all in the telling?: A study of the role of text schemas and schematic text structures in the recall and comprehension of printed news stories (Ph.D. thesis). University of Florida. OCLC 49246593.

External links

• Profile of Meenakshi Gigi Durham.
• School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa.