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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"postfeminism"”.
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Media Discourses and Postfeminism: An Analysis of Gender Logic in the Year of the Woman
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87892 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Avenging women: an analysis of postfeminist female representation in the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers series
… film. Widespread social contexts of sexism and postfeminism construct female representations that appear to empower but actually disempower women, and is subconsciously received. This series reinforces sexism and false postfeminist ideology through a combination of (1) power dynamics in which …
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Class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production: Experiences, subjectivities and policy discourses
… to reproduce discourses of meritocracy and postfeminism. A central aim of the thesis is to identify within independent film enterprises the workings of class and gender. The thesis argues that entrepreneurial work practices sustain, rather than depart from, discriminatory working conditions. …
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Re-Composing Feminism: Australian women composers in the new millennium
In the age of postfeminism and fourth-wave feminism online, Australian women composers are theoretically able to “have it all,” however, the proportion of women in the occupation appears to have plateaued in recent years. In this thesis, I explore the multiple ways in which gender and feminism …
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
… engagement with pleasure into two main areas: postfeminism and male desire. Ultimately <i>Sucker Punch</i> offers a disturbing vision of the way postfeminist empowerment fantasies (which are broken up into empowerment through female sexuality and empowerment through violence) map onto male …
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(School) girl power : the construction and contradiction of the cultural figure of the schoolgirl across contemporary popular culture
… movement gained popularity alongside the rise of postfeminism in the late 1990s, representations of girls were held to demonstrate model citizenship. With schoolgirls being representative of almost all women and girls, the figure amassed popularity and is a repeated subject of media texts. …
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The Competitors: violent women protagonists in popular cinema - a creative and critical thesis
… of the PhD with particular focus on feminism and postfeminism, stylised and realist violence, and self versus other in relation to the subjects of competition and violence. Chapter One discusses female action icons from the 1970s to the 1990s in terms of the violent woman in popular cinema. …
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"Anal is the new oral": The sexual politics of the heteronormalisation of anal sex
… in and shaped by a wider neoliberal context and postfeminism, with connections to digital culture, popular culture and pornography. This thesis has two main empirical sections. In the first section, I present a media analysis of depictions of heterosexual anal sex across diverse media contexts, …
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The Bachelor Industry: The Surveillance and Governing of Women
… of contemporary tropes about the therapeutic, postfeminism, race, and the pornographic. Scholars studying contemporary therapeutic culture observe that subjects are incited to constantly work on, change, the self. In the BI, however, participants claim a therapeutic good by asserting a …
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Bratz, BFFs, princesses and popstars: femininity and celebrity in tween popular culture
… Rock (2008, 2010). It forges a dialogue between postfeminism, film and television, celebrity, and the figure of the tween, in order to examine how the tween is both constructed and addressed by the films and television programmes that make up tween popular culture. Tweenhood is a discursive …
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Transnational technologies of gender and mediated intimacy
… socio-historical context at large. It deploys postfeminism as a critical analytical term to capture gendered features of contemporary cultural life, and engages with feminist work aiming to understand the operation of power under neoliberalism. A number of new concepts are advanced to make …
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Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
… are underpinned by the ideologies of patriarchy, postfeminism and ageism. While egalitarianism can be identified in the self-representations of the participants higher on the socio-economic ladder, it is clearly suppressed. The programme fosters sexism against social changes favouring women. I …
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
… theoretical/conceptual frameworks of feminism, postfeminism, and feminist film criticism. Semi-structured interviews underpin a large part of the analysis, with contributions from eight leading female film directors: Heiny Srour, Leyla Assaf-Tengroth, Joana Hadjithomas, Nadine Labaki, Danielle …
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Envisaging Community in Twenty-First Century US Film and Television: Neoliberalism, Relationality, Ecologies
… neoliberal discourses pertaining to gender and postfeminism. Chapter 2 centres on White’s HBO series *Enlightened* (2011–13), analysing the complex affective dimensions that undergird the series’ critique of corporate capitalism in a post-2008 context. The series’ excoriation of neoliberalism, …
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#EvenMore than just a brand of soap: a case study analysing LUX soap's use of Instagram
This research investigates the ways in which Unilever's LUX soap has repositioned their brand away from their historical association with beauty pageants. This research aims to unpack the ways in which Instagram is utilised by LUX soap to effectively communicate a distinct brand personality. This …
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Online Community Response to YouTube Abuse
This study draws on social problems literature about rhetoric in claims-making and social movement literature about credibility in framing to understand the construction of YouTube abuse and relationships between member role in the community and their frames/the reception of those frames. I also …
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IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN? POSTFEMINIST FEMININITIES IN FEMALE FRIENDSHIP APPS
Friend-finding technologies for women are new media peddling an old promise: female empowerment through mediated possibilities of friendship, and software that connects them. Powered by algorithms that help structure their company, these applications (apps) turn out remarkable not for bridging …
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Women Supporting Women: Lifestyle Influencers and Branded Femininity
Influencer is a term used to refer to a digital content creator who has successfully monetized their social media brand. These individuals are self-branders who see social and economic returns in exchange for their supposedly authentic self-presentations (Abidin 2015; Duffy 2017; Hearn 2008). These …
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Buzz by Bravo: a trendsetting niche network’s place within contemporary television
This dissertation examines Bravo as a niche cable channel whose strategies, audience, and programming contribute to its success in a competitive, changing landscape. As such my study of Bravo significantly contributes to the understanding of what television—as both a concept and an …
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The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir
The femme fatale, a quasi-eternal figure of female transgression and retributory violence, has gradually entered popular culture’s symbolic lexicon as representative of mainstream feminism and postmodern femininity. Tracing the development of the femme fatale into a feminist pop culture icon …
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