The scholarship, research, and criticism of women who developed key
theories of communication and methods for the study of media.
The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women's Contributions to Media Studies
offers a fresh perspective on the intellectual history of the field of
media studies, a broad scholarly field that encompasses the
interdisciplinary and overlapping fields of media studies, cultural
studies, and communication studies. By recovering the work of the
diverse group of women who labored at the margins of media studies as it
took shape during the formative years of communication research between
the 1930s and the 1950s, and providing scholarly contexts for this work,
The Ghost Reader shows that "intersectional considerations" were key
modes of engagement for intellectuals, academics, and activists who
happened to be women. They did so decades before feminist perspectives
were reintegrated into histories of the field.