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Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. (2024)
Book Chapter
SMITH, F. and MCKAY, F. 2024. Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. In Le Clue, N. (ed.) Gender and the male character in 21st century fairy tale narratives: from enchanted heroes to modern masculinities. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited [online], chapter 6, pages 75-86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-788-420241007

Red Riding Hood is said to have been assembled from folktales that pre-date the collector Charles Perrault's 1697 re-telling and initial publishing (Dundes, 1989; Zipes, 1993). Since then, it is a story that has been re-told and re-imagined many time... Read More about Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood..

Scotland and period poverty: a case study of activists' media and political agenda-setting. (2021)
Book Chapter
MCKAY, F. 2022. Scotland and period poverty: a case study of activists' media and political agenda-setting. In Morrison, J., Birks, J. and Berry, M. (eds.) The Routledge companion to political journalism. Abingdon: Routledge [online], Chapter 38, pages 404-413. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429284571-38

Grassroots-led global social movements have become increasingly prominent on mainstream media and political agendas. In Scotland, several of these have resulted in significant policy change, including the period poverty movement, which addresses ineq... Read More about Scotland and period poverty: a case study of activists' media and political agenda-setting..

Gender and media representation: politics and the 'double bind'. (2020)
Book Chapter
MCKAY, F. 2020. Gender and media representation: politics and the 'double bind'. In Smith, A. (ed.) Gender equality in changing times: multidisciplinary reflections on struggles and progress. London: Palgrave Macmillan [online], pages 203-225. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26570-0_10

In recent decades, more women have been elected into office, showing the gains which have been made as more take a seat at the political table. In 2008, women occupied 18.3% of parliamentary seats worldwide, growing to 24.3% in 2019 (IPU 2019). While... Read More about Gender and media representation: politics and the 'double bind'..

Scotland, Wales and press discourses amid the 2016 EU referendum. (2018)
Book Chapter
HIGGINS, M., RIDGE-NEWMAN, A. and MCKAY, F.M. 2018. Scotland, Wales and press discourses amid the 2016 EU referendum. In Ridge-Newman, A., León-Solís, F. and O'Donnell, H. (eds.) Reporting the road to Brexit: International Media and the EU Referendum 2016. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online], chapter 3, pages 47-60. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73682-2_3

This chapter is concerned with establishing and analysing the discourses that shaped the coverage of the 2016 EU referendum in a selection of Scottish and Welsh newspapers. The chapter looks at the Scottish editions of the Daily Express and Daily Mai... Read More about Scotland, Wales and press discourses amid the 2016 EU referendum..