1st Edition
An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies Conflicts and connectivities
Introduction: Why "intergenerational feminist media studies"? Alison Winch, Jo Littler and Jessalynn Keller
1. Pretty past it? Interrogating the post-feminist makeover of ageing, style, and fashion Deborah Jermyn
2. Handover women: Hong Kong women filmmakers and the intergenerational melodrama of infidelity Gina Marchetti
3. Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times Rosalind Gill
4. "Older-wiser-lesbians" and "baby-dykes": mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema Eva Krainitzki
5. Growing pains: feminisms and intergenerationality in digital games Alison Harvey and Stephanie Fisher
6. In the silences of a newsroom: age, generation, and sexism in the Indian television newsroom Nithila Kanagasabai
7. Fifty shades of fandom: the intergenerational permeability of Twilight fan culture Leslie Paris
8. Bridges, ladders, sparks, and glue: celebrating and problematizing "girl-driven" intergenerational feminist activism Dana Edell and Lyn Mikel Brown (with Celeste Montano)
9. The rhetoric of the mistake in adult narratives of youth sexuality: the case of Amanda Todd Renée Penney
10. Intergenerational feminism and media: a roundtable Rosalind Gill, Hannah Hamad, Mariam Kauser, Diane Negra and Nayomi Roshini
Biography
Jessalynn Keller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media & Film at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is author of Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age (Routledge 2015) and co-editor of Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture (Routledge 2018). Her research on feminist digital cultures, girls’ media, and celebrity has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Information, Communication & Society, and the Journal of Gender Studies, as well as in several edited collections.
Jo Littler is the author of Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility (2017) and Radical Consumption? Shopping for Change in Contemporary Culture (2008). She is editor of The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of ‘Race’ (with Roshi Naidoo, 2005) and Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism (with Sam Binkley, 2011).
Alison Winch is the author of Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (2013). She is currently co-authoring a book with the title The New Patriarchs of Silicon Valley: Power, Celebrity and Digital Culture.
