Postfeminist Digital Cultures Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Rep
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 be
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Postfeminist Digital Cultures Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation
Amy Shields Dobson
POSTFEMINIST DIGITAL CULTURES
Copyright © Amy Shields Dobson, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-40839-6 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-56942-7 ISBN 978-1-137-40420-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137404206 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dobson, Amy Shields, 1981– Postfeminist digital cultures : femininity, social media, and self-representation / by Amy Shields Dobson. pages cm.—(Critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Internet and women. 2. Social media. 3. Femininity. 4. Women— Identity. 5. Feminism and mass media. 6. Mass media and women. I. Title. HQ1178.D63 2015 302.23082—dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 2 Postfeminism, Girls and Young Women, and Digital Media
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Part I Sexual Self-Representations Chapter 3 Heterosexy Images on Social Network Sites
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Chapter 4 Girls, Sexting, and Gender Politics
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Part II Valuable and Devalued Selves Chapter 5 Postfeminist Self-Making: Textual Self-Representation and t
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