Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Women's Participation in Communication: Elements for a Framework / Pilar Riano -- 2. Gender in Communication: Women's Contributions / Pilar Riano -- 3. Reinforcing Existing Indigenous Communication Skills: The Use of Dance in Tanzania / Penina Mlama -- 4. Cultural Distinctions in Communication Patterns of African-American Women: A Sampler / Susan Y. Dyer-Bennem -- 5. Notes for Reflection: Popular Women and Uses of Mass Media / Sonia Munoz -- 6. Understanding Women's Grassroots Experiences in Producing and Manipulating Media / Maria Protz -- 7. Process Video: Self-Reference and Social Change / Jennifer Kawaja -- 8. A Process of Identity Deconstruction: Latin American Women Producing Video Stories / Clemencia Rodriguez -- 9. Losing Fear: Video and Radio Productions of Native Aymara Women in Bolivia / Carmen Ruiz -- 10. Shards of Remembrance: One Woman's Archaeology of Community Video / Dorothy Kidd -- 11. Being Women in the Popular Radio / Marita Mata.

12. The WEDNET Initiative: A Sharing Experience Between Researchers and Rural Women / Rose Mensah-Kutin -- 13. Communicating for Empowerment: Women's Initiatives to Overcome Poverty in Rural Thailand and Newfoundland / Sharon Taylor -- 14. Speak Magazine: Breaking Barriers and Silences / Libby Lloyd -- 15. Women as Social Agents of Communication: Social Maternity and Leadership / Rosa Maria Alfaro.