Digital Femininities: The Gendered Construction of Cultural and Political Identities Online

ISBN-13: 9780367404307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Frankie Rogan

Opis

This book examines the role of new media technologies in the production of girls’ cultural and political identities and explores issues underpinning debates around gender politics and digital media, including gendered spatial politics, visibility, surveillance and regulation, beauty politics, and civic and political engagement and activism.

Spis treści

1. Digital Femininities: An Introduction  Part I: Theories and Context  2. Backdrops: Neoliberalism, (Post-)Postfeminism and the Transforming Femininities of Late Modernity  3. Youth, Femininity and Culture in a Digital Age  4. Youth, Femininity and Politics in a Digital Age  Part II: Digital Cultures: New Research  5. Bedrooms, Bodies and Beauty: Exploring the Gendered Politics of Space, Surveillance and Visibility in a Digital Age  6. Selfies, Likes and Comments: Aesthetic Entrepreneurship in Digital Cultures  7. #Goals: Consumption, Influencers and New Femininities within Digital Cultures  8. Gendering the Youthquake? Shifting Notions of Participation and Activism in the Digital Age  9. Conclusion: Discussing the Dichotomies

O autorze

Frankie Rogan is a Lecturer in Sociology and the current Deputy Head of the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Her primary research interests include gender/feminist theory, cultural politics, new media and the impact of social and economic change on self-hood and identity.