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Palestine on the Air Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Angona Saha
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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Feminist Mentoring in Academia Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Tanya Nawrocki
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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Language, Sexism, and Misogyny Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Riska Mulyani
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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La Vocera/The Spokeswoman Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Nancy Regina GomezArrieta
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Vasundhra Singh
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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Mean Girl Feminism Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Stephany Rojas Hidalgo
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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Mommy Needs Her Chardonnay in a Sippy Cup: How Mothers Make Sense of “Wine Mom” Messages and Their Effects on Mothering Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Shelby Cefaratti-Bertin, Ashley K. Barrett
“Wine Mom” culture has recently been popularized through social media, entertainment, and household products. Although numerous popular editorials and blogs scrutinize the behaviors associated with...
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Proclaiming the Unborn Child’s Humanity: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of the National Sanctity of Human Life Day Proclamations Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Christine M. Willingham
The National Sanctity of Human Life Day (NSHL) was declared 22 times between 1984 and 2021. The proclamations were a strategy to strengthen electoral support for Republican presidents by validating...
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Feminist Relational Agency and the Cultural Contestation of Heteronormative Gender Norms in the Indian American Diaspora Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Anjana Mudambi, Leslie J. Harris
Through an analysis of essays published by the online magazine American Kahani, a publication that centers contemporary generations of the Indian American community, we argue that feminist relation...
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Exploring Resilience and Meaningful Work in Rape Crisis Advocacy Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Danielle Caprice Biss, Ashley K. Barrett
Rape crisis advocates (RCAs) are high-stakes volunteers (HSVs) that provide advocacy services to survivors of sexual violence during forensic examinations. Given that supporting survivors can be em...
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Reclaiming Femininity: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Pakistani Web Series Churails’ Title Track “Doosra Janum” Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Rauha Salam-Salmaoui, Shazrah Salam
This study explores Pakistan's deeply ingrained heteropatriarchal ideologies through the “Doosra Janum” (Second Incarnation) title track from Churails, using multimodal critical discourse analysis,...
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The UnFree Echo, Toward Anti-Carceral Poetics: Poems and an Interview with Sean Avery Medlin Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Sean Avery Medlin
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)
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How News Organizations Cultivate and Maintain Sexist Newsrooms via Gendered Journalistic Norms, Sexual Harassment, and the Boys’ Club Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Lindsey E. Blumell, Dinfin Mulupi
This study used in-depth interviews and focus groups of editors and journalists in Kenya (N = 55) to show how news organizations fail to prioritize gender equality. All participants identified a ge...
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For My Students Considering Abolition in Communication and Gender Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Michael Tristano Jr.
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)
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Against Carceral Feminisms, Toward Abolitionist Futures Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Lore/tta LeMaster
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)
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Radical Self-Disclosure as Abolitionist Agitation Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Meggie Mapes
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)
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A Rhetoric that Breathes, a Rhetoric that Heals: In/coherence, Storytelling, and Abolitionist Futures Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Logan Gomez, Matthew Houdek, Robert Mejia
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)
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No Longer Filed Away: Abolition, Sexual Violence, and Zine-Making Against the University Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jessica Hatrick, Fidelia Lam, Hannah Wolstein, Grace Zhang
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)
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Fame, Feminism, and Failure: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Time’s Up Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Caitlin E. Lawson
In the wake of #MeToo, the non-profit feminist organization, Time’s Up, was started by a group of celebrity women in 2018, only to dissolve four years later, mired in scandal. Using Boorstin’s theo...
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Banal Precarity: Performing Queer of Color Lives in Contemporary Times Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Michael Tristano Jr.
Queer of color lives are always lived in close proximity to violence and death. Said differently, minoritarian subjects are constantly navigating positions of precarity in order to continue living....
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Spinning Outside of Our Selves: Pole Dance, Materiality, and Embodied Existence Beyond Colonial Binaries Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Miranda L. McCreary
In this essay, I analyze three embodied experiences of pole dance: spinning movement, the continual material relationship between the pole and the body, and the unique movements of pole dance. I ar...
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McDermott, Victoria, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, and Amy R. May (Editors). Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy and Education. Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Mitchell Friedman
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Yanity, Molly, and Danielle Sarver Coombs (Editors). 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer’s Biggest Stage. Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Rina Juwita
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Bodies on the Line vs. Bodies Online: A Feminist Phenomenology of Digitally Mediated Political Action Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sumru Atuk, Alyson Cole
Many scholars and commentators dismiss digitally mediated activism as an inadequate and inferior form of political participation. Such disparagements ignore accounts from feminist, disabled, BIPOC,...
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Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies. Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Catherine E. Polley
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Harris, Leslie J. The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity. Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 October Heffner
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Stalled Life with Rhetoric: Notorious RBG and the Limits of Feminist Imagery Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Haley Swartz
New materialist methods often frame networked images as dynamic, bouncing across the network in contiguous and proximate iterations. Positing that a networked life of an image stalls, this article ...
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(Re)productive Dissent: Reproductive Justice in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Calvin R. Coker, Abigail Faulstick
The overturn of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in June 2022 solidified the patchwork nature of abortion access in the United States and clarified, for some, the need to move beyond a f...
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Toward Mainstreaming of Feminist (Counter)Publics? The Networked Structure of Feminist Activism on Twitter Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Miriam Siemon, Daniel Maier, Barbara Pfetsch
This study investigates the roles of feminist actors in the Twitter discourse about sexualized violence that came up during the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in Oc...
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After Roe: Teaching and Researching Reproductive Justice Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lore/tta LeMaster
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Thingified Flesh: A Womanist Approach to De/Colonial Reproductive Politics and Research Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lisa B. Y. Calvente
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Crafting a Critical Pedagogical Landscape in a Post-Roe Dystopia Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Elise Higgins, Meggie Mapes, Lore/tta LeMaster
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Can You Tell by Looking at Me? Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Billy Huff
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Dobbs, Reproductive Justice, and the Promise of Decolonial and Black Trans Feminisms Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Embracing Jane’s Uncivil Tongue: Pro-Choice Failures and Post-Roe Futures Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Cassidy D. Ellis
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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The Specter of Shame: Affective Historiography and New Methods in Abortion Research Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Micki Burdick
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Care and Constraints in the Climate Crisis: An Intersectional Rhetorical Analysis of News Comments about the El Dorado Fire Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Emma Frances Bloomfield, Rebecca M. Rice
In September 2020, a gender reveal party started the El Dorado Fire in southern California. We analyzed comments on news coverage of the fire from two outlets with different political leanings to e...
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Singled Out and Mocked: Intersection of (Hetero)Sexism and Ableism and Mobilization of Anti-Discourses in Online Hatred towards Hypervisibilized Youth Activists Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Lenka Vochocová
This article contributes to the relatively scarce research on the intersection of various anti-discourses in online hatred by focusing on online verbal attacks on publicly active, nonmature actors ...
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Johnson, Amber L., and LeMaster, Benny (Editors). Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography: Embodied Theorizing from the Margins Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Jillian Klean Zwilling
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Lewis, Tiffany. Uprising: How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Alexandra Parr Balaram
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Hanchey, Jenna. The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Lana Medina
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Jackson, Regina, and Rao, Saira. White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Hailey Schumann
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Lawson, Caitlin E. Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Emma Lynn
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Nish, Jennifer. Activist Literacies: Transnational Feminisms and Social Media Rhetorics Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Alisa D. Hardy
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Carr, Bryan J., and Carstarphen, Meta G. (Editors). Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Amika Starr
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Montell, Amanda. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language. Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Marge Strong
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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“Didn’t She Used to Sell That WAP?”: Cardi B, Clashing Femininities, and Citizenship Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Raquel Moreira
Abstract “Didn’t she used to sell that WAP?” tweeted Afro-Latina rapper Cardi B on August 16, 2020, in response to California congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine’s post: “America needs far more women like Melania [Trump] and far less like Cardi B.” This exchange and others foreground this article’s argument—namely, that conservative reactions to Cardi B’s performances of racialized and classed
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Diffractive Menstruation: Toward a Technical-Rhetorical Perspective of Menstrual Health Technologies Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Melissa Stone
Abstract This article provides a technical-rhetorical perspective regarding the impact of historical menstrual health technologies through a material feminist approach. My Baradian diffractive analysis builds on previous work from material feminist scholars as well as feminist technical-rhetorical scholars to explain how menstruation and the innovation of menstrual health technologies are often predicated
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“Periods Don’t Stop for Pandemics”: The Implications of COVID-19 for Online and Offline Menstrual Activism in Great Britain Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Maria Kathryn Tomlinson
Abstract Menstrual activists have long adopted an intersectional approach in their work to reduce period poverty, eradicate menstrual stigma, and educate audiences about health and sustainability. By forcing offline activities to cease, COVID-19 created unprecedented barriers for menstrual activists, including the closure of offline spaces and social distancing. Lockdown, however, provided a unique
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Anti-TERF: Trans Feminisms against White Nationalist Projects—Introductory Remarks Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Lore/tta LeMaster
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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What’s the Point of Feminisms if They Can’t Be Trans? Una reflexión desde o sur Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 The Anti-Colonial Death Studies Collective
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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TERF Logics Are Carceral Logics: Toward the Abolition of Gender-Critical Movements or Black Trans Life as Pedagogical Praxis Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Qui Dorian Alexander
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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“Gender-Critical” Discourse as Disinformation: Unpacking TERF Strategies of Political Communication Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Thomas J Billard
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Transfeminist Possibilities and Remembering the 1970s Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Morgan DiCesare, E Cram
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Erotics of Epidemicity: Captivity and Refusal in Mediations of Black Trans Life and Death Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Ashley Noel Mack
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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The Impossible Trans Body: Non/Images of Gender in Regimes of Whiteness Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 V. Jo Hsu
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Cracking the Cracked-Up System: Shared Stories from Interstage Academic Feminist Collaboration Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Gabriela I. Morales, Jennifer R. Bender, Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs, Sumaira Abrar, Cecilia Cerja
Abstract The concept of “cracking the cracked-up system” was introduced in a 2018 National Communication Association (NCA) convention panel. The panel’s purpose was to bring voices together and validate both presenters’ and members’ experiences in higher education. Several women have contributed to the conversation across the years, and these conversations have crafted sustained interstage feminist
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“I Never Liked Him”: Ryan Adams and the Toxification of Masculinity in the Post-MeToo Digital Era Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Brenton J. Malin
Abstract This article explores the Twitter response to reports of abusive behavior by U.S.-based singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. Using a combination of quantitative data analysis techniques and close textual and contextual analysis, I analyze an archive of more than 130,000 tweets taken from the week prior to the initial reporting of Adams’s behavior in February 2019 and continuing until March 2021.
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“They’re All Honky Bros…”: Exploring Canadian Women of Color’s Experiences Using Geosocial Networking Applications Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Amy Matharu, Eric Filice, Diana C. Parry, Corey W. Johnson
Abstract Digital-sexual racism is mediated though geosocial networking applications (GSNAs), also known as dating/hookup apps. Digital-sexual racism seeks to explain how access to multiple profiles, emphasis on self-presentation, and increased anonymity found on GSNAs results in racism and discrimination for people of color. Scholars have started to explore digital-sexual racism on GSNAs; however,
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The Viewer-As-Detective: Big Little Lies and the Productive Liminality of Complex Mystery Television Women's Studies in Communication (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Sierra Dann, Sheryl Cunningham
Abstract This research utilizes aspects of narrative and ideological criticism to analyze complex mystery television and representations of women. Using the first season of Big Little Lies, the authors argue that the disruption of narrative conventions creates a productive liminality in which the viewer takes on the role of detective. This positioning of the viewer-as-detective encourages viewers to