Dobson, Amy Shields. European Journal of Cultural Studies 10 (2): 147-166. Amy Shields Dobson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. … Dobson’s work contributes to a growing body of scholarship that frames girls and women as agentic and empowered individuals, in a postfeminist era. © 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a preview of subscription content, American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (2007) Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association). Egan, R. D. and G. Hawke (2008) ‘Girls’ Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements: Deconstructing the Discourse of Corporate Paedophilia’. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture. Projansky, S. (2007) ‘Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism’s Daughters’ in Y. Tasker and D. Negra (eds). In recent years ‘tween’1 girls in Anglo-American societies have emerged from relative obscurity to become the focus of public and academic scrutiny. currently circulating in mainstream media culture—which exist in tension with each other. It seems that you're in USA. This article argues that postfeminism is best understood as a distinctive sensibility, made up of a number of interrelated themes. I argue for the importance of being able to “think together” the rise of popular feminism alongside and in tandem with intensified misogyny. Renolds, E. and J. Ringrose (2008) ‘Regulation and Rupture: Mapping Tween and Teenage Girls’ Resistance to the Heterosexual Matrix’. We have a dedicated site for USA, Authors: I further show how a postfeminist sensibility informs even those media productions that ostensibly celebrate the This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Please review prior to ordering, Immediate eBook download after purchase and usable on all devices, This price is for end customers only. Gill, R. (2007) ‘Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility’. She is the coeditor (with Catherine Warren) of American Cultural Studies. Dobson finds the perfect line between respecting girls as cultural producers and asking some hard questions about their digital cultures as ways of 'getting by' in postfeminism. She deftly turns the camera back to feminist cultural studies, offering some welcome reflection about the work of critique in politically complicated times. Vavrus assesses the logic that emerges in these narratives recurrent themes about gender and explores their significance for women and for feminism, ultimately arguing that feminism has been supplanted by postfeminism in news accounts of political women. This chapter argues that the discourse on postfeminist media culture has not sufficiently addressed the racialized boundaries of embodiment that surround acts of choosing. “This book usefully examines the ‘social media practices’ and ‘digital self-representations’ of girls and young women that comes with increasing access to the Internet. ), All About the Girl: Culture, Power and Identity (London: Routledge). Boden, S. (2006) ‘Dedicated Followers of Fashion? However unintentionally, these texts strike an alarmist chord that produces all girls as ‘in trouble’ and create a flurry of media response. McRobbie, A. Mary Douglas Vavrus explores the process of representing political women in media, and argues that contemporary news accounts promote a postfeminist politics that encourages women s private, consumer lifestyles and middle-class aspirations, while it discourages public life and political activism. Cook, D. and S. Kaiser (2004) ‘“Betwixt and Be Tween”: Age Ambiguity and the Sexualisation of the Female Consuming Subject’. Harris, A., S. Aapola and M. Gonick (2000) ‘Doing it Differently: Young Women Managing Heterosexuality in Australia, Finland and Canada’, Machin, D. and J. Thornborrow (2003) ‘Branding and Discourse: The Case of. pp 134-146 | New feminist visibilities in postfeminist times. Yet there is little agreement about what postfeminism is. 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Informed by feminist media and cultural studies, Dobson delves beyond alarmist accounts to ask what it is we really fear about these practices. (2005) ‘Fashion and Passion: Marketing Sex to Women’. Gill R (2016a, in press) Post-postfeminism? Feminist Media Studies online first: 1-19. Bell, E. (2008) ‘ “From Bad Girl to Mad Girl”: British Female Celebrity, Reality Products and the Pathologisation of Pop-Feminism’. Maison, H., Marshall H. and A. Woollett (2002) ‘Talking of Taste: A Discourse Analytic Exploration of Young Women’s Gendered and Racialised Subjectivities in British Urban, Multicultural Contexts’. ...you'll find more products in the shopping cart. Download preview PDF. Available at. Concerns about ‘tween’ girls’ sexualization have largely made their way into the media and public domains through a growing collection of popular culture texts such as The Lolita Effect (Durham, 2008), What’s Happening to Our Girls (Hamilton, 2007) and So Sexy So Soon (Levy and Kilbourne, 2008) as well as through various reports (e.g. Mary Douglas Vavrus is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture - Ebook written by Mary Douglas Vavrus. Her current projects examine sexting in schools, and female genital cosmetic surgery in Australia, including the role of social media. Femininity as an Empty Category’. Gill R (2007) Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility. Gleeson, K. and H. Frith (2004) ‘Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities’ in Anita Harris (ed.). Seeking Feedback and Representing Pain in Postfeminist Networked Publics, Afterword Notes on Visibility and Self-Exposure. Not affiliated Cite as. It offers a nuanced, thoughtful and sympathetic analysis of the girls and young women negotiating postfeminist sensibility, while remaining critical of the cultural conditions of possibility that frame their negotiations. A rigorous, impressive, and important book that cuts through the debate about what girls are doing online, and what we should be doing about it. Campaign 2000 or the Year of One Woman, Putting Ally on Trial Contesting Postfeminism in Media Culture, Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture, Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media. “Postfeminist digital cultures gives us a deep insight into the complexity of online participation. Stenner, P. (1993) ‘Discoursing Jealousy’ in E. Burman and I. Parker (eds), Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0). 192.163.211.200. Dobson's work is right where we need to be." We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. The Influence of Popular Culture on Children’s Social Identities’. The gaze directed at them is a particularized and often anxious one, grounded in notions that these girls might be growing up too fast, more specifically that they are precociously sexualized. Feminist Media Studies. CrossRef Google Scholar Gleeson, K. and H. Frith (2004) ‘Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities’ in Anita Harris (ed.