Table of Contents “...Publishing challenges in the new century -- Technological rabbits and communication turtles -- Tripartite nature of university presses -- Limits of standardization in scholarship -- Publishing, property, and information structures -- Specialization in the electronic world -- Social science and scholarly communication -- Open access and closed minds -- Professional ambitions and public interests -- Formatting ideology through tabloid politics -- Scholarly pornography -- Publishing programs and political dilemmas -- Political periodicals in policy formation -- Monopolization of publishing and crisis in education -- Publishing responses to economic crisis -- Publishing as a vocation: the necessity of independence....”

Table of Contents “...Leslie Steeves and Janet Wasko -- Something old, something new : lingering moments in the unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism / Lisa McLaughlin -- An un-suitable technology for a woman? : communication as circulation / Michèle Martin -- The invisibility of the everyday : new technology and women's work / Ellen Balka -- The political economy of women's employment in the information sector / Stana Martin -- Sexual harassment as an economic concern : Swedish and American coverage of Astra / Nancy Hauserman -- Single moms, quota queens, and the model majority : putting "women" to work in the California Civil Rights Initiative / Roopali Mukherjee -- Selling women (down the river) : gendered relations and the political economy of broadcast news / Karen Ross -- Gender and the political economy of newsmaking : a case study of human rights coverage / Carolyn M. ...”