Mediating post-socialist femininities / edited by Nadia Kaneva.
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TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2015Description: 168 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138939851 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Feminism and mass media | Women in mass media | Feminist criticism | Media Studies | Media StudiesDDC classification: 302.2'3'082 Summary: This collection of essays examines the ways in which popular media have re-constructed ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. It explores a comprehensive range of questions including: how have post-socialist women engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation? What are the consequences of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context? And, how does the female body serve as a battleground for the enactment and renegotiation of gendered identities and ideologies? In seeking answers, it highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces and bridges research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today.
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This collection of essays examines the ways in which popular media have re-constructed ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. It explores a comprehensive range of questions including: how have post-socialist women engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation? What are the consequences of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context? And, how does the female body serve as a battleground for the enactment and renegotiation of gendered identities and ideologies? In seeking answers, it highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces and bridges research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today.
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