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Postfeminist Digital Cultures: Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
Amy Shields Dobson
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Description for Postfeminist Digital Cultures: Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
Hardcover. This book explores the controversial social media practices engaged in by girls and young women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm vlogs. Informed by feminist media and cultural studies, Dobson delves beyond alarmist accounts to ask what it is we really fear about these practices. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK; JFFP; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
This book explores the controversial social media practices engaged in by girls and young women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm vlogs. Informed by feminist media and cultural studies, Dobson delves beyond alarmist accounts to ask what it is we really fear about these practices.
This book explores the controversial social media practices engaged in by girls and young women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm vlogs. Informed by feminist media and cultural studies, Dobson delves beyond alarmist accounts to ask what it is we really fear about these practices.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137408396
SKU
V9781137408396
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Ref
99-15
About Amy Shields Dobson
Amy Shields Dobson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. She previously lectured in Sociology and Gender at Monash University, Australia. Amy has published several articles and chapters in international anthologies on young people's social media practices and gender politics. Her current projects examine sexting in schools, and female genital cosmetic surgery in Australia, including the role ... Read more
Reviews for Postfeminist Digital Cultures: Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
“This book usefully examines the ‘social media practices’ and ‘digital self-representations’ of girls and young women that comes with increasing access to the Internet. … Dobson’s work contributes to a growing body of scholarship that frames girls and women as agentic and empowered individuals, in a postfeminist era. … provides a head start for research in non-Western contexts, where work ... Read more