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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> Mills, Sara [mailto:S.L.Mills@shu.ac.uk] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 26 May 2010 11:47<BR><B>To:</B> GENDERgalaLIST GALAlistServe<BR><B>Subject:</B> IGALA Book Prize Winner</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Dear IGALA members,</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">I am happy to announce that the winner of the International Gender and Language Association Book prize for 2010 is:</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Ros Gill’s book: <B>Gender and the Media</B>, Polity.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Some extracts from reviews of the book by IGALA members:</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The book contains `broad yet detailed coverage of the field of gender and media studies’ and also constitutes `a contribution to the theorisation of post feminism and its relationship to representations of gender in contemporary media through original critical analyses of a variety of media forms.’</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">`The clarity and accessibility of Gill’s writing combined with her wide-ranging yet detailed review of the key theories and debates provides a thorough overview of the central issues and concerns in gender and media studies.’ `The result of Gill’s studies is a clear but disturbing demonstration of the ways in which contemporary media representations are constructed in a manner that stitches together feminist and anti-feminist ideas and notions of the neo-liberal subject, incorporating ideas of empowerment, autonomy, the reassertion of sexual difference, self-surveillance and expressions of contemporary sexism’. `It is the most comprehensive book on post feminism I have read: it offers practical tools to analyse post feminism as a sensibility rather than as a historical turn, epistemological break or simple backlash.’ `All gender and language researchers would benefit from reading this book’.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Best wishes</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Sara Mills</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Co-ordinator IGALA Book Prize</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></P></DIV> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. <a href='https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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