Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies
Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies features contributions written by a diverse group of stellar feminist scholars from around the world. Each contributor has authored a brief, thought-provoking commentary on the current status and future directions of feminist media studies. Although contributors write about numerous, discrete subjects within the field of feminist media studies, their various ideas and concerns can be merged into six broad, overlapping subject areas that allow us to gain a strong sense of the expansive contours of current feminist communication scholarship and activism which the authors have identified as generally illustrative of the field. Specifically, authors encourage feminist media scholars to engage with issues of political economy, new ICTs and cybercultures, as well as digital media policy, media and identity, sexuality and sexualization, and post-feminism. They stress that feminist media scholars must broaden and deepen our theoretical frameworks and methodologies so as to provide a better sense of the conceptual complexities of feminist media studies and empirical realities of contemporary media forms, practices and audiences.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.
Lisa McLaughlin is an Associate Professor with appointments in Media Studies and Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University-Ohio, USA. She has published on transnational feminism, the public sphere, political economy, and women, work, and information technologies. She is co-editor with Cynthia Carter of the journal Feminist Media Studies.
Cynthia Carter is a Senior Lecturer with the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK. She has published on news and sexual violence, feminist news studies, and children, news and citizenship. She is co-editor with Lisa McLaughlin of the journal Feminist Media Studies.
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The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book may be referred to as articles as they are identical to the articles published in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.
The following chapters were originally published in Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 2
Arab Feminist Media Studies: Towards a poetics of diversity
Salam Al-Mahadin
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 7-12
Chapter 3
Sex, Shopping and Security: Thinking about feminist media studies again
Gargi Bhattacharyya
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 13-20
Chapter 4
Bridging The Gaps: Feminist generation gaps and feminist media studies in the US context
Mary Beltrn
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 21-26
Chapter 5
African Feminist Media Studies: A view from the global South
Tanja Bosch
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 27-34
Chapter 6
Roll Up Your Sleeves!: Black women, black feminism in Feminist Media Studies
Robin Means Coleman
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 35-42
Chapter 7
The Difference Engine: Gender equality, journalism and the good society
Monika Djerf-Pierre
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 43-52
Chapter 8
Body Matters: Resuscitating the corporeal in a new media environment
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 53-60
Chapter 9
Sexism Reloaded, or, Its Time to get Angry Again!
Rosalind Gill
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 61-72
Chapter 10
Do Your Homework: New media, old problems
Melissa Gregg
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 73-82
Chapter 11
A Feminist Political Economy of Communication
Micky Lee
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 83-88
Chapter 12
Pro-Suming Swearing (Verbal Violence): Affect as feminist (Internet) criticism
Lisa Yuk Ming Leung
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 89-94
Chapter 13
Past the Post in Feminist Media Studies
Catharine Lumby
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 95-100
Chapter 14
Unveiling Frances Border Strategies: Gender and the politics of the headscarf ban
Angela McRobbie
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 101-106
Chapter 15
Feminism and Media in the Post-Feminist Era: What to make of the feminist in feminist media studies
Andrea L. Press
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 107-114
Chapter 16
Arriving at a Crossroads: Political priorities for a socially relevant feminist media scholarship
Katharine Sarikakis
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 115-122
Chapter 17
Wanted, Alive and Kicking: Curious feminist digital policy geeks
Leslie Regan Shade
Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 123-130
Chapter 18
Critical Regionalities in Inter-Asia and the Queer Diaspora
