ABSTRACT In The Deadly Life of Logistics (2014), Deborah Cowen asks what a queer engagement with logistics space might look like. In the years following this publication, there has been an increase in interest in critical approaches to logistics, infrastructure, and supply chains, yet hardly any of this work has been taken up in queer scholarship. This article offers an analysis of Netflix’s Sense8

ABSTRACT Lebanon’s reservations in ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1997 left women at the mercy of the country’s personal status codes derived from its 18 religious sects and its lenient, if not absent, laws on marital rape and domestic violence. It was only in August 2017 that article 522, which allows a rapist to escape punishment

ABSTRACT This article examines 144 horoscope forecasts in the Turkish girls’ magazine HeyGirl over the period 2019–20 using critical discourse analysis. It argues that although astrology is seemingly playful and harmless, it works as the “institutionalization of superstition” by encouraging girls to judge, evaluate and classify themselves through their experience by using the idea of a “perfect” future

ABSTRACT In recent decades, given the crucial role played by the news media in fighting to eradicate violence against women, several organisations and legislative initiatives have begun self-regulating. This study analyses news coverage of gender-based murders in the Basque media over the course of three years, beginning with approval of rules for self-regulation. The results show that the media actively

ABSTRACT This study analyzes Generation Z women’s perceptions of gendered stereotypes about STEM and through social media. Generation Z is currently an age group still in school or on the verge of deciding for a career path, where STEM subjects are an option. Moreover, they are the most digitally active cohort, extensively engaging with social media. Several corporate as well as feminist technoscience

ABSTRACT In this paper we offer a critical analysis of the media discourse around an anti-sexual violence comic book, Priya’s Shakti (2013), which tells the story of a victim of gang rape who becomes an unlikely “superhero” in a crusade to end sexual violence. The comic was created by an Indian American filmmaker, Ram Devineni, in response to the horrific gang rape and murder of a young woman in New

ABSTRACT Teen cinema is one of the most dynamic popular cinematic genres, constantly changing to remain relevant to its youth audience. This article investigates how a recent cycle of teen cinema–represented by popular US films Blockers, Dude, and Booksmart–has been praised as “feminist” teen storytelling. All three films are the debut feature of a woman director, and all focus on girl characters navigating

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ABSTRACT From the analysis of videos, we sought to understand the specificities of the gender affirmation of trans people born and/or residing in Brazil who create and produce content on YouTube with the objective of sharing snapshots of their lives, mainly related to their gender identity(ies). This is qualitative research in which twenty-nine videos by eight different people were collected and analyzed

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Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2022)

Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2022)

ABSTRACT Olivia Rodrigo is a Filipina American pop star who used the micro-vlogging network TikTok to launch her music career in early 2021. Though Rodrigo received criticism for copying other musicians’ work, I argue that Rodrigo’s authenticity is predicated on her use of transparent content creation on her TikTok account to connect with her young, global audience. Using Rodrigo’s TikTok as a case

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ABSTRACT This study focuses on the social media discourse of craftivism between March 2020 and December 2020, coinciding the COVID-19 lockdowns across the United States and the US Presidential Election. The timeframe under examination also includes some of the most extensively covered Black Lives Matter protests to date in the United States, thus requiring an intersectional lens and attention to whose

ABSTRACT Employing the hierarchy of influences model this study examines source use in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean newspapers, an understudied area in Africa. A quantitative content analysis (N = 557) revealed the dominance of elites and men as sources and reporters. Women as sources were absent in 72% of all news stories while ordinary voices were present in only 9.3%. The voices

ABSTRACT We analyse rejection experiences in mobile dating applications (MDA), in particular Tinder, based on the variables of gender and age. To do so, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with forty (40) heterosexual Tinder users (10 women aged 18–28 years, 11 women aged 40–60, 10 men aged 18–28, and 9 men aged 40–60). Results showed that rather than explicitly hostile experiences, users

ABSTRACT I am writing about how whiteness works in the United States and Mexico, by looking at portraits by one photographer in Mexico, Yvonne Venegas and one photographer in the United States, Dana Lixenberg. I understand whiteness as something that goes beyond a skin tonality and that does something in the world. I analyze symbols and poses in portraiture to interpret how whiteness is performed and

ABSTRACT There is considerable scholarship to support the idea that shared cultural narratives—about what it means to belong, to contribute, to be of value—are very effectively mediated through the mass media, and, in particular, through popular fictional formats such as feature film. This article analyses two contemporary, state-supported Danish films, Nymphomaniac, Director’s Cut and Dronningen (Queen

ABSTRACT This paper looks at three televised examples of pregnant women grappling with prenatal testing. In these stories, prenatal testing for disability is increasingly being framed as a requirement of responsible motherhood, and termination of pregnancies with diagnoses of disability shown as the logical choice. Disability is frequently depicted to be an anxiety-inducing or disappointing outcome

ABSTRACT Drawing on content analyses of 175 newspaper articles about repealing the ban on American women serving on the front lines of combat, this paper explores how news media portrayed military women. Historically, media depicted women in war as damsels in distress, yet after a decade of women’s service in blurred front lines, media had ample opportunities to frame women differently. The news media

ABSTRACT This paper examines how transgender identity is represented across articles from three British national newspapers: The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph. Transgender identity has become a highly contentious issue in areas of western culture, especially Britain, and even within feminism itself, with heightened visibility leading to a backlash against the rights of trans people to protection

ABSTRACT This study uncovers the national deployment of cuteness in the multi-year birthday celebrations of the enormously popular child star Shirley Temple during the Great Depression in the United States. These widely publicized media events promoted the ideology of consumerism through Shirley Temple’s brand cuteness, addressing the prevailing anxieties about poverty and patriarchal capitalism in

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes a viral Twitter thread from October 2020 in which Marvel fans debated the quality and political significance of a scene from Avengers: Endgame that highlights a number of Marvel’s female superheroes. Comments formed a complex reception matrix that used gender and affective reactions to the scene to construct political statements about the role of identity politics in popular

ABSTRACT Although there is some scholarship on intersectionality focusing on African feminist movements, more work needs to be done to examine the importance of employing an intersectional framework to understanding feminisms in Africa. I critically analyze the advocacy work of four feminist groups on social media and digital media platforms. I examine discourses in contemporary feminist movements

ABSTRACT Albeit many studies have promoted cultivating college students to develop their gender awareness, little work on heroine film-mediated gender education has been reported. Hence, this report presents a classroom-based study to examine how a heroine film is used as a medium to enhance gender knowledge. A total of 120 undergraduate students of the English Literature Study Program volunteered

ABSTRACT The serious presence of cinematographic productions, particularly documentaries, in academic sociological studies is the reason for this comparative study between a documentary, #Female Pleasure, as a non-academic social study, and academic sociological research to show their methodological differences. Departing from Weber’s teachings, this paper examines the methodological aspects of #Female

ABSTRACT This study sheds light on how Malaysian former Muslims construct their anti-hijab discourse in the context of Facebook and Twitter interactions and how a dichotomous meaning is assigned to the hijab. The five participants were identified using the snowball technique, starting from a well-known Malaysian former Muslim. Data was generated by observing the participants’ postings over nine months

ABSTRACT This paper engages issues of complicated femininity and the representation of such in South African telenovela Gomora. Set in South African township Alexandra, Gomora tells the story of contemporary life in post-apartheid South Africa, where people are forced to engage issues of poverty, inequality, racism, and more. In particular, the paper engages one of the main characters in the program

ABSTRACT Public discussion of blockbuster films and TV shows increasingly focuses on the power of representation, with certain works celebrated for their potentially beneficial effects. That celebration, however, often rests on the assumption of non-diverse audiences. Using media discourse on the film Wonder Woman (2017) as a case study, this article examines testimonies describing the psychological

ABSTRACT This paper explores how and why first-person shooter games can enable players to forge a more masculine sense of self. In doing so, it advances an understanding of the interconnected nature of players’ online and offline worlds, and their “actual” and “ideal” selves. Whilst existing masculinities research has explored how technological mastery can lead to expressions of “geek” masculinity

ABSTRACT This study examines whether opposition against gender and sexual equality is a common denominator between the radical right, political actors, and mainstream media in Germany. The study hypothesizes that socially shared sexist beliefs and gender stereotypes offer access points to public discourse for anti-egalitarian counterpublics, legitimizing their contestations of gender and sexual equality

ABSTRACT The article explores the homonormative and homonational politics and the discourse of LGBT rights in contemporary Israeli cinema. Some Israeli films such as Yossi and Jagger, The Bubble, and The Secrets promote homonormative and homonational discourse that is guided by a progressive trajectory from traditional societies to modernity, from shame to pride, from homophobia and the secrecy of

ABSTRACT This paper traces the movement of “item numbers” from mainstream Bollywood culture to the regional culture of Assam. Given the level of eroticism that is part of such songs, the paper will specifically explore the means of surveillance and control that these “non-normative” cultural texts are subjected to within a local spatial context. By deconstructing this inter-cultural movement of performance

ABSTRACT Encouraged by the popularization of the feminisms and the essentiality of care in the face of the increasing precarity of the living conditions, popular women’s culture in the global North has been showing signs of a growing interest in self-care practices. Given this new visibility, the present work proposes a critical approach to the discursive representation of self-care from a transdisciplinary

ABSTRACT This article compares the Netflix miniseries “Unbelievable” (2019) with the journalistic works on which it is based in order to decide how fiction based on real events contributes to the journalistic narrative of sexual abuse. To that end, we accomplish a comparative and interpretative analysis that shows how the invented sequences and scenes contribute to show: the trauma and secondary victimization

ABSTRACT This article studies lived experiences of gender equality and feminism in Finnish newsrooms between 1960 and 1990. On one hand, the journalists I interviewed claimed they had reported on diverse social issues related to gender equality and feminism throughout their careers. On the other hand, they embraced the idea that the journalistic profession had achieved more gender equality in Finland

ABSTRACT Women experience abuse both physically and psychologically in a war, and, marginalized women’s voices are rarely heard. Yan Geling’s The Flowers of War 金 陵十三 钗 [Jinling shisan chai] is based on a true story of vulnerable parochial schoolgirls whose lives intersect in a Catholic cathedral with the lives of a local cadre of prostitutes. The two groups became trapped in the cathedral during the

ABSTRACT In Western societies, feminisms are being taken up in new and exciting ways. We are seeing a range of feminisms being expressed in the mainstream media and through alternative sites. A unique aspect of contemporary Western feminism is the take up by men, particularly those with profiles in public life and the media, and how this can build male feminist capital. This “bloke turn” has been welcomed

ABSTRACT This paper explores how documentary cinema in war contexts can challenge gender representations. To do so, we adopt a feminist and postcolonial approach to analyze the work of Catalan non-fiction filmmaker Alba Sotorra in Kurdistan, Afghanistan and Catalonia. In her films, Sotorra positions herself close to a series of subjects absorbed by wars and armed conflicts that (re)define their identities

ABSTRACT Instagram has been identified as potentially offering opportunities for feminist activism and resistance against limiting normative ideals surrounding femininity and the body. Extending this work, this article examines a corpus of illustrations shared to Instagram by feminist sex-positive artists. Locating these representations within the constraints of a platform where gendered norms and

ABSTRACT This study examines the co-optation of feminism by politicians. Adopting a case study approach, we explore three contemporary leaders who declared themselves feminists during political campaigns: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. We analyse how these politicians communicated a feminist identity during and after electoral

ABSTRACT This article explores how profiled Norwegian and Swedish feminists utilise Instagram to perform self-care as a central part of their activism. In discussing how the platform’s underlying premise of visibility is a driving force for their activity, in terms of the embodied resistance available for users appropriating the technology successfully, it points at how personal and collective well-being

ABSTRACT This study analyzes Israeli Zionist-religious women’s representation in community web-series and their reception as a minority group within a minority community. To reveal their social role and the mechanisms that stimulate interaction and encourage social change, thematic and textual analyses were conducted. It was found that religious-Zionist women emerge as meaningful characters manifesting

(2022). The darker side of feminist scholarship: how online hate has become the norm. Feminist Media Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article offers a cultural analysis of Diane Keaton’s later career that teases out the age/gender interactions of the roles she has played past her mid-fifties. Drawing on both age and gender theories, our analysis of Keaton’s late-life characterizations explains the actor’s transformation into an icon of a positive and desirable form of female aging. At the same time, it observes the

ABSTRACT This study explores representations of women, violence, and antihumanism in the Netflix original Love, Death & Robots animated anthology series. Drawing on the cyborg philosophical figure described by Donna Haraway in The Cyborg Manifesto and the posthumanist ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the text examines how posthuman representations are constructed. The present study begins

ABSTRACT This paper critically examines competing media discourses about women’s alcohol consumption as spectators at the Melbourne Cup, a historically prestigious annual Australian horse race. Taking a feminist poststructural lens, this paper identifies how print media representations of the female drinking subject can provide a multitude of subject positions that can be contradictory and subversive

ABSTRACT This article examines how three UK & US media representations of mother running negotiate, challenge, and reassert the boundaries and meanings of contemporary motherhood. Using literary and cultural analysis alongside feminist and critical race theories, I investigate what is normalized and what is obscured by the figure of the mother runner in the following mediated examples: 1) a newspaper

(2021). Editors’ introduction: the twentieth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 21, 20th Anniversary Special Issue, pp. 1265-1269.

(2021). Introduction to the 20th anniversary issue of commentary and criticism. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 21, 20th Anniversary Special Issue, pp. 1371-1372.

ABSTRACT There is an outpouring of sexual assault stories being told by women in the #MeToo moment. The moment feels celebratory because there have been serious consequences for high-profile abusers such as Harvey Weinstein. It is significant that the women allowed to visibly tell their stories present as brave, postfeminist woman-subjects. The expanded characterisation of feminine bravery in the contemporary

ABSTRACT The Spanish Netflix show Élite has been hailed for its progressive storylines and its wide representation of queer characters. In this work, I focus on the relationship between Christian and Polo, two young seemingly heterosexual male students who, in becoming involved in a lust triangle with Carla, Polo’s girlfriend, go on a journey of sexual self-discovery. The queer sexual engagement of

ABSTRACT Using the results of an Amazon Turk survey of 500 people, both men and women, the authors examine whether toxic masculinity influenced men and women’s belief in myths during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. While public appearances may have shown that men were more resistant to public health campaigns and more receptive to health care myths, this survey shows men and women’s responses

ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the representational work and institutional reception of two contemporary transnational icons, singer/actress Amara La Negra and actress Yalitza Aparicio. The author argues that Amara La Negra and Yalitza Aparicio disrupt the dominant trope of racial ambiguity circulating in transnational media representations of Latina womanhood. In doing so, these two public figures rupture

ABSTRACT This article investigates how issues related to abortion have been portrayed in American television from 2005 to 2021 through a feminist analysis of the melodramatic series Grey’s Anatomy. Using a comparative analysis between two female characters facing accidental pregnancies, this work examines how they are portrayed when pondering over the possibility of terminating their pregnancies and

ABSTRACT This paper explores how the queer subcultural practice of “reading” can pave the way for a more ontologically open way of being. Reading involves the trading of insults between two or more marginal subjects in ways that create comedic value by identifying and parodying representational norms. It reveals a radical politics of inclusion that rejects the idea of distinction that underpins subject

ABSTRACT Motherhood as the key to femininity did not appear until the eighteenth century, and it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century, together with the appearance of mass media, that the ideal of the “perfect mother” began to spread through the model of intensive mothering. The main objective of this work is to analyse, from a gender perspective, the messages and discourses on how

ABSTRACT During the second half of the 20th century, financial entities conquered new clients: women. This research highlights a strategy used by a private bank to reach a new market segment with an unprecedented communication tool in the financial sector: the women’s magazine. The magazine DIANA (1969–1978), holds the key to the first financial disclosure strategy with a gender perspective launched

ABSTRACT This study analyzes the representation of temporalities that govern the lives of older women in the series Grace and Frankie . Using the method of semiotic discourse analysis, it explores how the series’ main characters react to neoliberal temporality as it is manifested in old women’s lives. Drawing on Michel Foucault 1988 theoretical framework, we show that the two protagonists, Grace and