Feminism and generation are live and ideologically freighted issues
that are subject to a substantial amount of media engagement. The
figure of the millennial and the baby boomer, for example,
regularly circulate in mainstream media, often accompanied by
hyperbolic and vitriolic discourses and effects of
intergenerational feminist conflict. In addition, theories of
feminist generation and waves have been, and continue to be,
extensively critiqued within feminist theory. Given the compelling
criticisms directed at these categories, we ask: why bother
examining and foregrounding issues of generation, intergeneration,
and transgeneration in feminist media studies? While remaining
skeptical of linearity and familial metaphors and of repeating
reductive, heteronormative, and racist versions of feminist
movements, we believe that the concept of generation does have
critical purchase for feminist media scholars. Indeed, precisely
because of the problematic ways in which it is used, and its
prevalence as a volatile, yet only too palpable, organizing
category, generation is in need of continual critical analysis, and
is an important tool to be used-with care and nuance-when examining
the multiple routes through which power functions in order to
marginalize, reward, and oppress. This book covers a range of media
forms: film; games; digital media; television; print media; and
practices of media production, intervention, and representation.
The contributors explore how figures at particular stages of
life-particularly the girl and the aging woman-are constructed
relationally and circulate within media, with particular attention
to sexuality. The book emphasizes exploring the ways in which the
category of generation is mobilized in order to gloss sexism,
racism, ageism, class oppression, and the effects of neoliberalism.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of Feminist Media Studies.
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