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To evaluate the critical and analytical utility of postfeminism in understanding contemporary resurgences of feminist visibility across mainstream media culture.

June 23, 2016Feminist Media StudiesOpen Access

Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times

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To evaluate the critical and analytical utility of postfeminism in understanding contemporary resurgences of feminist visibility across mainstream media culture.
Conducted a conceptual critique and theoretical review of current literature on postfeminism and contemporary media representations.
Examined structural tensions between rising popular feminism, neoliberal sensibilities, and parallel increases in cultural misogyny.
Demonstrates that contemporary media representations ostensibly celebrating feminism continue to be organized by contradictory, neoliberal postfeminist sensibilities.
Identifies that the recent surge in popular feminism operates concurrently with, rather than displacing, intensified cultural misogyny.
Finds that assertions claiming culture has moved beyond postfeminism are premature, confirming the concept's ongoing validity for cultural critique.

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Theoretical analysis reveals the persistent influence of postfeminist sensibilities across mainstream media, suggesting that contemporary feminist resurgence remains deeply entangled with...

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Rosalind Gill (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d77ebff44a16d01ef31663 https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2016.1193293

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Theoretical analysis reveals the persistent influence of postfeminist sensibilities across mainstream media, suggesting that contemporary feminist resurgence remains deeply entangled with...

Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times

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