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Introducing Feminism and Fandom
The book’s introductory chapter centers on the importance of exploring fandom in conjunction with feminism and researching feminist women fans more...
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Working Women on Screen Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism
Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism critically examines screen media representations of women’s participation in the...
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Introduction: The “Post(?)-Feminist” Moment in Contemporary Classical Music
The introductory chapter gives an overview of the collection’s breadth of focus, arising from the composer-authors themselves, and pointing to the...
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Femvertising and Commodity Feminism: The Brazilian Context
Issues related to women in advertising, although recurrent in academic debate, are far from exhausted. Although studies have interrogated the...
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The Slasher Film and the Final Girl Get Makeovers: It Follows and the Politics of Fourth Wave Feminism
This chapter looks at how David Robert Mitchell’s 2015 supernatural slasher film, It Follows, updates Carol Clover’s theorization of the slasher...
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The Impact of Femvertising on Pink Breast Cancer Products in Australia
Given the recent #MeToo and Times Up movements, and the growing mainstream interest in femvertising since 2014, one might anticipate a change of...
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Women’s Avenues of Digital Activism: Fighting for Their Own
In recent years, the global women’s rights movement has flourished, with groups from all over the world making increasing use of the internet and...
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Feminism, Facts, and Fear: The Protean Reception of The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood 1985, Miller 2017–)
When Margaret Atwood’s visceral dystopia first appeared in 1985, Mary McCarthy of the New York Times criticized the book for its implausibility,...
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Introduction: I Will Not Be the Last
The suffragist parade in 1913 on the eve of President Wilson’s inauguration was marred by violence, but that was not going to stop the movement....
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“I Am the Highest Paid Showrunner in Television!” Shonda Rhimes’ Work and Influence in the Media Industry
The work of American television producer Shonda Rhimes is influential both in terms of on-screen representations and the wider media industry. In the...
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The Mediatisation and Media Practice of Citizen Media and GBV: A Case of etvScandal Soap Opera Facebook Page
The chapter argues that the self-mediation activism on gender-based violence (GBV) we see on etvScandal Facebook page is a form of citizen social...
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“You Deserve to Be Satisfied”: Women in Tech and the Affective Reconfiguration of the Workplace Through Song in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
Since the late 2000s, public debates over “women in tech” have highlighted the lack of diversity in the sector, coinciding with a moment of growth...
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“I Took a Dump on the Glass Ceiling”: Veep, Incompetence, and Populist Political Culture
The final season of Veep follows fictional former US Vice-President and President Selina Meyer’s quest for re-election. Airing in 2019, it was the...
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Representing Sex Workers: The Experiences of Shae, Ros and Daisy in Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Writing in the New Statesman, Alison Phipps (New Statesman, 24 November 2014) advocates that feminism needs sex workers if we are to make women’s...
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Safe Spaces on Social Media Platforms: Selective Censorship and Content Moderation in Reddit’s r/TwoXChromosomes
The advent of the internet and social media platforms unlocked the potential for feminist collaboration, debate, and action on a scale never before...
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Following in Gezi’s Steps: Women’s Activism After the Gezi Protests
The Gezi Protests, with no centralized leadership, created many different interest groups uttering their demands. Women’s groups were among the most...
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Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies
Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Looking Through Their Gaze promises to be a comprehensive anthology with essays on women film...
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Intersectionality in Feminist Hashtags and Democracy: How the Black Women’s Day in Brazil Mobilizes Specificities within the Feminist Movement
In 1992, after a meeting of Black women in the Dominican Republic, July 25 became the International Day of Black, Latin American, and Caribbean Women...
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Postfeminist Sensibility as a Structure of Feeling
In this chapter we introduce the book by identifying emerging themes in discussions of a postfeminist sensibility. We highlight digital culture, a...