Research Catalog

Title

Digital femininities : the gendered construction of cultural and political identities online / Frankie Rogan.

Author

Rogan, Frankie

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

vii, 199 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Digital Femininities: The Gendered Construction of Cultural and Political Identities Online examines the role of new media technologies in the production of girls' cultural and political identities. The book argues that the varied and complex spaces which make up our 'social media' should be conceptualised as important terrains upon which neoliberal and postfeminist subjectivities can be both reproduced and subverted. In doing so, the book explores many key issues underpinning current debates around gender politics and digital media, including gendered spatial politics, visibility, surveillance and regulation, beauty politics, and civic and political engagement and activism. Over the last decade, the position of girls and young women within the digital landscape of social media has been a topic of much debate. On the one hand, girls' social media practices are presented as a key site of concern, wherein new digital technologies are said to have produced an intensification of individualized, neoliberal and postfeminist identities. Conversely, others have championed access to social media for young people as a potentially revolutionary political tool, enabling previously marginalized political subjects (such as girls) to access and participate within new and exciting political cultures. Locating itself at the intersection of these two approaches, this book offers a fresh contribution to these debates. Based upon the findings from focus groups with girls and young women aged between 12 and 18 in England, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the digital cultures that emerged from the study. This timely book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary femininity and feminism and the role of digital media in the production of cultural, political and gendered identities"--

Series Statement

Sociological futures

Uniform Title

Sociological futures.

Subject

• Internet and women
• Online identities
• Femininity
• Feminist theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 22-4003

ISBN

• 9780367404307
• 0367404303
• 9781032268552
• 1032268557

LCCN

2021062091

OCLC

1289987959

Author

Rogan, Frankie, author.

Title

Digital femininities : the gendered construction of cultural and political identities online / Frankie Rogan.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Sociological futures

Sociological futures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Rogan, Frankie. Digital femininities Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9780429356117 (DLC) 2021062092

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4003