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Girls' Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age explores the
practices of U.S.-based teenage girls who actively maintain
feminist blogs and participate in the feminist blogosphere as
readers, writers, and commenters on platforms including Blogspot,
Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Drawing on interviews with bloggers
between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one, as well as discursive
textual analyses of feminist blogs and social networking postings
authored by teenage girls, Keller addresses how these girls use
blogging as a practice to articulate contemporary feminisms and
craft their own identities as feminists and activists. In this
sense, feminist girl bloggers defy hegemonic postfeminist and
neoliberal girlhood subjectivities, a finding that Keller uses to
complicate both academic and popular assertions that suggest
teenage girls are uninterested in feminism. Instead, Keller
maintains that these young bloggers employ digital media production
to educate their peers about feminism, connect with like-minded
activists, write feminist history, and make feminism visible within
popular culture, practices that build upon and continue a lengthy
tradition of American feminism into the twenty-first century.
Girls' Feminist Bloggers in a Postfeminist Age challenges readers
to not only reconsider teenage girls' online practices as
politically and culturally significant, but to better understand
their crucial role in a thriving contemporary feminism.
Through twelve chapters that historicize and re-evaluate
postfeminism as a dominant framework of feminist media studies,
this collection maps out new modes of feminist media analysis at
both theoretical and empirical levels and offers new insights into
the visibility and circulation of feminist politics in contemporary
media cultures. The essays in this collection resituate feminism
within current debates about postfeminism, considering how both
operate as modes of political engagement and as scholarly
traditions. Authors analyze a range of media texts and practices
including American television shows Being Mary Jane and Inside Amy
Schumer, Beyonce's "Formation" music video, misandry memes, and
Hong Kong cinema.
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.
Girls' Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age explores the
practices of U.S.-based teenage girls who actively maintain
feminist blogs and participate in the feminist blogosphere as
readers, writers, and commenters on platforms including Blogspot,
Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Drawing on interviews with bloggers
between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one, as well as discursive
textual analyses of feminist blogs and social networking postings
authored by teenage girls, Keller addresses how these girls use
blogging as a practice to articulate contemporary feminisms and
craft their own identities as feminists and activists. In this
sense, feminist girl bloggers defy hegemonic postfeminist and
neoliberal girlhood subjectivities, a finding that Keller uses to
complicate both academic and popular assertions that suggest
teenage girls are uninterested in feminism. Instead, Keller
maintains that these young bloggers employ digital media production
to educate their peers about feminism, connect with like-minded
activists, write feminist history, and make feminism visible within
popular culture, practices that build upon and continue a lengthy
tradition of American feminism into the twenty-first century.
Girls' Feminist Bloggers in a Postfeminist Age challenges readers
to not only reconsider teenage girls' online practices as
politically and culturally significant, but to better understand
their crucial role in a thriving contemporary feminism.
Through twelve chapters that historicize and re-evaluate
postfeminism as a dominant framework of feminist media studies,
this collection maps out new modes of feminist media analysis at
both theoretical and empirical levels and offers new insights into
the visibility and circulation of feminist politics in contemporary
media cultures. The essays in this collection resituate feminism
within current debates about postfeminism, considering how both
operate as modes of political engagement and as scholarly
traditions. Authors analyze a range of media texts and practices
including American television shows Being Mary Jane and Inside Amy
Schumer, Beyonce's "Formation" music video, misandry memes, and
Hong Kong cinema.
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.
From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document
instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social
media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and
#BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital
media as activist tools to speak, network, and organize against
sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. As the first book-length study
to examine how girls, women, and some men negotiate rape culture
through the use of digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter,
Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps, the authors explore four primary
questions: What experiences of harassment, misogyny, and rape
culture are being responded to? How are participants using digital
media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence,
harassment, and sexism? Why are girls, women and some men choosing
to mobilize digital media technologies in this way? And finally,
what are the various experiences of using digital technologies to
engage in activism? In order to capture these diverse experiences
of doing digital feminist activism, the authors augment their
analysis of this media (blog posts, tweets, and selfies) with
in-depth interviews and close-observations of several online
communities that operate globally. Ultimately, the book
demonstrates the nuances within and between digital feminist
activism and highlight that, although it may be technologically
easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there
remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers which create
different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices,
perspectives, and experiences over others.
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