Women and media in the Asian context : a collection of country reports and other presentations during the Asian Sub-Regional conference on Women and Media, which was held in the Philippines on Nov. 30-Dec. 5, 1987 / editors : Fort Olicia Nicolas, Jojo de Leon, M. Juris Aledia Luna.

This edition discusses women as portrayed in the media, and women, as practitioner involved in the media. It also discusses the images of the Filipino woman as reflected in popular publications and electronic media, and as portrayed in radio, television programs, print/TV ads, komiks magazines, and the movies are, in general, backward and deleterious. The author contends that the portrayal of women in the media is negative and deleterious both as the traditional wife-mother and graciously-lady portraits that limit the woman in growth and leadership, and the siren-victim-criminal image that exploits womanhood. It therefore, discusses the overall picture of women in media in the Philippines as unchanged, changing, and changed. The position of women in press and television is dramatic proof that change in the Filipino woman's position can be and is being achieved, and that it was fought for and forged by women who are both the liberators and the liberated.