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Addressing the interdisciplinary area of language & gender as applied to television and media studies, this article summarises the detailed analysis of some extremely popular contemporary TV series and media.
Daniela Francesca Virdis
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No Girls Allowed: Television Boys’ Clubs as Resistance to Feminism [PDF]
This article analyzes the male-only spaces present in four television series, FX’s The Shield, Nip/Tuck , Rescue Me, and ABC’s Boston Legal, which each include a gendered territory as a recurring feature.
Nettleton, Pamela Hill, PhD
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“Flying under the radar”: Postfeminism and teaching in academic science
Abstract Neoliberal academia is marked by vertical and horizontal gender segregation, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is a particularly concerning case. Women with PhDs are underrepresented, and when they do participate, they are more likely than men to be in teaching‐intensive roles.
Katherine Doerr
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Postfeminist stylistics, work femininities and coaching: a multimodal study of a website [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to examine representations of work femininities on a British website offering coaching specifically aimed at women. It builds on and contributes to studies of postfeminist representations but with a specific focus on work ...
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Set in motion. Paradoxical narratives of becoming Swedish digital media influencers
Abstract This article analyzes how Swedish digital media influencers make sense of their careers in print media interviews and autobiographical books. I explore how influencers use metaphors involving motion, speed and acceleration to describe, explain and legitimate the various circumstances and phases of their career development, and how these ...
Gabriella Nilsson
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The Portrayal of Women in P!nk’s and The Pussycat Dolls’ Albums in the View of Postfeminism [PDF]
This present study entitled The Portrayal of Women in P!nk’s and The Pussycat Dolls’ Albums in the View of Postfeminism is aimed at unearthing the patterns which are acquired after analysing the portrayal of female personas in every single song lyrics ...
Fuad, Maulana Subhan
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Marriage in a British Evangelical Congregation: Practising Postfeminist Partnership? [PDF]
This article explores understandings and practices of marriage in a congregation from the growing British evangelical Christian movement New Frontiers International (NFI).
Ammerman N. +39 more
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Indonesian women leaders navigating hegemonic femininity: A Gramscian lens
Abstract Hegemonic femininity is a concept beginning to receive scholarly attention, and this paper illustrates how it has become a critical factor hindering women's leadership opportunities in Indonesia. This study aims to understand how women leaders adopt, modify, or reject forms of hegemonic femininity that interpellate their constructions of ...
Fitri Hariana Oktaviani
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Postfeminist 'Islamophobia': the Middle East is so 1980s in Sex and the city: the movie 2 [PDF]
This article considers how 'Sex and the City: The Movie 2' sets up a binary between style which is coded as ”vintage” and, therefore, desirable and items / fashion which are represented as “dated” and identified as bad taste.
Richardson, Niall
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Gendered work in geoscience: Hard work in a masculine field
Abstract Based on the meaning‐making of women geoscientists in their descriptions of work and career experiences, this article explores the gendering of geoscience by analyzing women's hard work as a theoretical concept. Our findings show that the gendered requirements for women in geoscience involve “doing” various forms of hard work, including making
Samuel Heimann, Kristina Johansson
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