1st Edition

Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age

By Jessalynn Keller Copyright 2016
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age explores the practices of U.S.-based teenage girls who actively maintain feminist blogs and participate in the feminist blogosphere as readers, writers, and commenters on platforms including Blogspot, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Drawing on interviews with bloggers between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one, as well as discursive textual analyses... Read more

Introduction: Transforming Feminist Conversations? Girls, Blogging and Feminist Politics in the Twenty-first Century  1. Click Moments and Coming Out: Girl Bloggers and the Performance of Feminist Identities Online  2. "Spread the Good Word of Feminism!" Defining a Girl-Centered Feminist Activism  3. "Loud, Proud, and Sarcastic:" Young Feminist Internet Communities as Networked Counterpublics  4. "I’ve really got a thing for Betty Friedan:" Feminist Girl Bloggers and the Production of Feminist History Online  5. Performing a Public Politics: Feminist Girl Bloggers and New Citizenship Practices  6. Conclusions: Articulating a Girl-Friendly Feminist Future

Biography

Jessalynn Keller is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. Her research on girls’ digital media cultures has been published in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies; Feminist Media Studies; Information, Communication & Society; and Celebrity Studies, as well as in several edited anthologies.

"Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age draws attention to the sustenance of feminist activism by storytelling that simultaneously conveys personal experience and represents broader themes."

-Akane Kanai, University of Hawai'i Press