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Breaking the Rules: Zodwa Wabantu and Postfeminism in South Africa
Media and Communication, 2021 Zodwa Wabantu, a South African celebrity recently made popular by the Daily Sun, a local tabloid newspaper, is notorious as an older working-class woman who fearlessly challenges social norms of feminine respectability and beauty. Her assertion of sexual
Priscilla Boshoff
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Pop Feminism: Televised Superheroines from the 1990s to the 2010s
Gender Studies, 2016 This paper analyses the construction of two superheroines, one from the 1990s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and one from the 2010s (Jessica Jones). I contend that popular feminism has changed between the 1990s and the present and that this is evident in the
Bercuci Loredana
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Inclusiveness Practices in Contemporary Feminist Narratives
Dive-In, 2023 Feminisms have gained increasing visibility in the last decade, becoming part of public and media discourse in Western societies. The popularisation of gender discourses has been accompanied by the growing production of feminist guides, handbooks and ...
Gohar Parissa Rahimi
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Whither Critical Masculinity Studies? Notes on Inclusive Masculinity Theory, Postfeminism, and Sexual Politics [PDF]
, 2015 Inclusive masculinity theory has recently been proposed as a new approach to theo- rizing contemporary masculinities. Focusing particularly on the work of the theory’s key exponent, Eric Anderson, this article offers a critical reading of inclusive ...
Anderson E. +16 more
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Postfeminist Inflections in Television Studies [PDF]
, 2014 This item is under embargo for a period of 18 months from the date of publication, in accordance with the publisher's policy.To better understand how postfeminism might inform media production, consumption and media scholarship, this essay explores a set
Humphreys, Sal, Vered, Karen Orr
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The Grove, 2021 The ability of dystopian fiction to offer critical views of futures riddled with the devastating consequences of today’s failures is pervasive also in its literary subgenre targeting young readers.
Andrea Burgos-Mascarell
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Reading Mom Lit: Feminism, Postfeminism and the Maternal Dilemma
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2022 The present paper intends to look at a genre of popular paperbacks, written by and about would-be or new mothers, called mom lit, which itself is a sub-genre of chick lit, and to investigate how it negotiates with the tropes of mothering ...
Srijanee Roy
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how reluctant female employees discuss and respond to the inessential esthetic demands that they receive from their bosses through an anonymous online forum as well as in real‐life work settings. Substudy 1 analyzes the corpus “r/antiwork” to identify the hidden transcripts of employees after inessential esthetic demands ...
Lakshmi Balachandran Nair
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The “F” Word?: An Analysis of the State of Feminism in the United States Today [PDF]
, 2019 Feminism is the attempt to reduce or eliminate patriarchy, or male rule by birthright. While this struggle for gender equality may seem straightforward, there are different “strains” of feminism that advocate different approaches to achieving feminist ...
Balanda, Marisa E.
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The One with the Feminist Critique: Revisiting Millennial Postfeminism with Friends [PDF]
, 2018 In the aftermath of its initial broadcast run, iconic millennial sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994–2004) generated some quality scholarship interrogating its politics of gender. But as a site of analysis, it remains a curious, almost structuring absence from the
Abele Elizabeth +32 more
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