1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Feminism
This comprehensive and authorative sourcebook offers academics, researchers and students an introduction to and overview of current scholarship at the intersection of marketing and feminism.
In the last five years there has been a resurrection of feminist voices in marketing and consumer research. This mirrors a wider public interest in feminism – particularly in the media as well as the academy - with younger women discovering that patriarchal structures and strictures still limit women’s development and life opportunities. The "F" word is back on the agenda – made high profile by campaigns such as #MeToo and #TimesUp. There is a noticeably renewed interest in feminist scholarship, especially amongst younger scholars, and significantly insightful interdisciplinary critiques of this new brand of feminism, including the identification of a neoliberal feminism that urges professional women to achieve a work/family balance on the back of other women’s exploitation.
Consolidating existing scholarship while exploring emerging theories and ideas which will generate further feminist research, this volume will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in marketing and consumption studies, especially those studying or researching the complex inter-relationship of feminism and marketing.
1. Editor’s Introduction to the Companion
Pauline Maclaran, Lorna Stevens and Olga Kravets
Section 1: Women in the History of Marketing
2. Goddesses of the Household: Martha Van Rensselaer and the Role of Home Economics in Marketing Theory
Mary Zuckerman
3. Creating the Critical Consumer: Helen Woodward and Hazel Kyrk on Self-Determination and the Good-Life
Mark Tadajewski
4. Marketing’s Hidden Figures: Black Women Leaders in Advertising
Judy Foster Davis
5. Marketing Education and Patriachal Acculturation: The Rhetorical Work of Women’s Advertising Clubs, 1926-1942
Jeanie Wills
Section 2: Gender Representations in the Marketplace
6. Feminist Brands: What Are They, and What’s the Matter with Them?
Eileen Fischer and Cele Otnes
7. "One, Two, Three, Four, What Are We Fighting For?": Deconstructing Climate-Crisis War Messaging Metaphors using Ecofeminism
Andy Prothero and Susan Dobscha
8. Menstruation in Marketing: Stigma, #femvertising, and Transmedia Messaging
Catherine A. Coleman, Katherine C. Sredl
9. In Search of the Female Gaze: Querying the Maidenform Archive
Astrid Van den Bossche
10. From identity politics to the politics of power: men, masculinities and transnational patriarchies in marketing and consumer research
Wendy Hein and Jeff Hearn
Section 3: Feminist Perspectives on the Body in Marketing
11. Materializing the Body: A Feminist Perspective
Anu Valtonen and Elina Närvänen
12. Transformations: Is There a Role for Feminist Activism in Women’s Sport?
Jan Brace-Govan
13. Women’s Sexual Practices: The B-Spot of Marketing and Consumer Research
Luciana Walthers
14. Taking off the Blindfold: The Perils of Pornification and Sexual Abjectification
Alexandra Rome
15. The Quest for Masculine To-be-looked-at-ness? Exploring Consumption Based Self-Objectification Among Heterosexual Men
Jacob Ostberg
Section 4: Difference, Diversity and Intersectionality
16. Are All Bodies Knit-worthy? Interrogating Race and Intersecting Axes of Marginalization in Knitting Spaces
Alev Kuruoglu
17. Marketing and the Missing Feminisms: Decolonial Feminism, and the Arab Spring
Nacima Ourahmoune
18. Going Back to the Roots and Extending Beyond: Capturing the [Power] Dynamics of Human and Non-Human Things of Climate Change Inequities
Laurel Steinfeld
19. Consumption Beyond the Binary: Feminism in Transgender Lives
Sophie Duncan Shepherd and Kathy Hamilton
20. Ageism, Sexism and Women in Power
Minita Sanghvi and Phillip Frank
21. Our Aging Bodies, Ourselves
Lisa Peñaloza
Section 5: Gendering Digital Technologies in Marketing
22. Black Women’s Digital Media and Marketplace Experiences: Between Buying, Branding and Black Lives Matter
Francesa Sobande
23. The Symbolic Violence of Digital (Anti-)Feminist Activism
Aliette Lambert and Ana-Isabel Nölke
24. Big Brother is monitoring: Feminist surveillance studies and digital consumer culture
Lauren Gurrieri and Jenna Drenten
25. Seeking Safety and Solidarity Through Self-Documentation: Debating the Power of the Self(ie) in Contemporary Feminist Culture
Maggie Matich, Rachel Ashman and Elizabeth Parsons
Section 6: Feminist Futures: Problems, Priorities and Predictions
26. How the Economic Sex/Gender System Excludes Women from International Markets
Linda Scott
27. The Politics of Epistemic Marginality: Testimonies-In-Opposition
Benedetta Cappellini and Martina Hutton
28. Women Who Work: The Limits of the Neoliberal Feminist Paradigm
Catherine Rottenberg
29. Putting Pornography on the Marketing Agenda: A Radical Feminist Centring of Harm for Women’s Marketplace Inequality
Laura McVey, Meagan Tyler and Lauren Gurrieri
30. Manifesting Feminist Marketing Futures: Undertaking A ‘Visionary’ Inventory
ULMS Feminist Collective
Biography
Pauline Maclaran is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Lorna Stevens is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Bath, UK.
Olga Kravets is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
"In a world of resurgent inequality, a book on feminist perspectives – which prioritize issues of injustice, exclusion, and subjugation – on the current state of the knowledge and debates in marketing, communications, and consumption is most timely and welcome. The contributions deliberate and expose the gendered nature of institutional and social structures that implicate marketing practices as well as the overlooked female contributions to the production of marketing knowledge."
Guliz Ger, Professor of Marketing, Bilkent University, Turkey
"This invaluable and urgently needed volume will have pride of place on my bookshelves. The carefully curated chapters synthesise and foster interdisciplinary insight, debate and critique surrounding the relationships between marketing and feminism, applying rigorous scholarship in examining a rich array of gendered marketplace practices, ideologies and activism. The collection addresses intersections of gender, class, age and race from the perspectives of an international, multi-generational group of feminist scholars drawing on a range of disciplines."
Stephanie O'Donohoe, Professor of Advertising and Consumer Culture, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK
"This tour de force volume provides a comprehensive and innovative study of the intersections among marketing, gender, and feminist theory. These collected works deftly trace out the marginalized voices, socio-cultural complexities, historical relations, and politics-of-identity conflicts that have shaped the marketing of gender and the gendering of marketing theory and practice. The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Feminism is a must read for anyone seeking to understand marketing’s gendered past, present and future."
Craig Thompson, Churchill-Bascom Professor of Marketing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
