Emergent Feminisms

Jessalynn Keller is an Assistant Professor in Critical Media Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. Maureen E. Ryan is an Instructor in Media and Cinema Studies at DePaul University.

"Emergent Feminisms provides an exciting map of mediated feminisms for the 21st century, finding intersectional activism and the potential for progressive change amidst the challenges of a postfeminist culture. These sharp analyses highlight the complexities of feminist expression across contemporary culture. A most welcome read!" -Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee"Emergent Feminisms drops a much needed anchor in the sea of current debates, reflections and commentaries on the vexed questions offered up by today’s feminisms and postfeminisms, and interrogates their intersections and interplays.In marshalling the wide-ranging and highly topical work of their contributors, and in taking the temperature of the relationship between media and identity formations as they manifest today in their terrain mapping introduction, Keller and Ryan deftly navigate their readers through debates about the political significance of what they call today’s ‘emergent feminisms’. They negotiate the complexities of thinking about the tensions and pitfalls of their emergence alongside the persistence of postfeminist culture, across the spectrum of contemporary media texts and practices, and interrogating flashpoint moments and iconic figures in the mediation of contemporary feminisms. This is exactly the kind of book that students and scholars of media, culture and identity have been waiting for - an essential resource for anyone involved in the teaching or study of intersectional feminist media studies, and anyone interested in the politics of gender and media now." -Hannah Hamad, Cardiff University

• Identities Being Mary Jane and Postfeminsm’s Problem With Race Amanda Rossie "Are you a feminist?": Celebrity, Publicity and the Making of a PR-Friendly Feminism Bryce Renninger "I’m Cool With It": The Popular Feminism of Inside Amy Schumer Taylor Nygaard Playing in the Closet: Female Rock Musicians, Fashion, and Citational Feminism Alyxandra Vesey Solidarities #iammorethanadistraction: Connecting Local Body Politics to a Digital Feminist Movement Emilie Zaslow Indignant Feminism: Parsing the Ironic Grammar of YouTube Activism Sujata Moorti From Pro-Equality to Anti-Sexual Violence: The Feminist Logics of Title IX in Media Culture Sarah Projansky Black "Rantings": Indigenous Feminisms Online Verity Trott Ambivalences The New Afro in a Postfeminist Media Culture: Rachel Dolezal, Beyoncé’s "Formation," and the Politics of Choice Cheryl Thompson #WomenAgainstFeminism: Towards a Phenomenology of Incoherence Jonathan Cohn Lean In or Bend Over? Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and Hong Kong's Wonder Women Gina Marchetti @NoToFeminism, #FeministsAreUgly and Misandry Memes: How Social Media Feminist Humor is Calling out Antifeminism Emilie Lawrence and Jessica Ringrose