Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2135911
Reighan Gillam
At her death, bell hooks left a legacy of theories and ideas through which to interrogate the racialized and gendered contours of power and inequality. While hooks wrote from the context of the United States, her theories resonate throughout the diaspora. She offers us the idea of the oppositional gaze as a space of agency in which Black spectators demand the right to look, interrogate images, and create their own images. By examining Afro-Brazilian cinema, this article builds on the idea of the oppositional gaze to engage my understanding of Black feminist film production. I analyze the considera-tions that the creators of the film Temporada ( “ Long Way Home, ” 2018) employed when rendering their Black woman protagonist. The criticality of the oppositional gaze can include Black filmmakers ’ praxis as they develop layered and dynamic Black characters.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2135888
C. Squires
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Maitrayee Basu , Radhika Gajjala , Pallavi Guha , Vijeta Kumar, Riddhima Sharma, Sujatha Subramanian, and Tarishi Verma London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom; American Culture Studies, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA; Department of Mass Communication, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA; St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, India; School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India; Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Department of Visual Arts and Communication, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
{"title":"Reflections: Sexual Violence in India and the Possibilities and Limits of Digital Activism","authors":"Maitraye Basu, R. Gajjala, Pallavi Guha, Vijeta Kumar, Riddhima Sharma, Sujatha Subramanian, Tarishi Verma","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2136908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2136908","url":null,"abstract":"Maitrayee Basu , Radhika Gajjala , Pallavi Guha , Vijeta Kumar, Riddhima Sharma, Sujatha Subramanian, and Tarishi Verma London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom; American Culture Studies, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA; Department of Mass Communication, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA; St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, India; School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India; Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Department of Visual Arts and Communication, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Connecticut, USA","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45133027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2136899
Pallavi Guha
Abstract In recent years, online election campaigns in India have evolved beyond using only Twitter and Facebook to take advantage of the population’s continuing interest in other social media platforms. Hashtag campaigns are now found on other platforms, such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube. With this development, online discourses on political campaigns have matured and become diverse. Several social movement issues in India, such as the anti-corruption movement, anti-caste movement, citizenship movement, and the #MeToo movement, have developed and been sustained on social media platforms in the past eight years. Since 2014, some of these movements have coexisted and intersected with election campaigns in India. This qualitative mixed-method study is an analysis of the influence of sexual assault narratives on online political campaigns in India. This study concerns the intersection of the theoretical frameworks of hashtag activism and locational identity, and it is based on the extensive interviews of eight citizen political volunteers and the thematic analysis of 60,195 Facebook posts during the election campaigns in Bihar and West Bengal elections in 2020 and 2021. The study finds that the political campaigns integrate sexual assault narratives into their online discourses if those narratives promote scandal frames and/or revenge frames. The campaign discourses on social media platforms seldom focus on the policy-related issue of sexual assault.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2097144
E. Phipps, F. Montgomery
Abstract The construction of Nancy Pelosi as the monstrous-feminine reveals itself in the highly misogynistic attack advertisements of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential reelection campaign. In our analysis of five YouTube attack ads, we demonstrate how short-form digital advertisements use the conventions of digital platforms to heighten the elements of horror used to construct the monstrous-feminine. Drawing from horror genre logics and editing conventions, the Trump campaign produces a narrative strategy that preys on conservative fears regarding women, race, and breaches in a gendered social contract. Targeting one of the most powerful women in American politics, Trump’s digital ads deploy a variety of editing strategies combined with common horror tropes to push audiences toward violent conclusions of how to “defeat” the monstrous-feminine, Pelosi.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2089501
Mengmeng Liu
{"title":"Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School","authors":"Mengmeng Liu","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2089501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2089501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43107751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-27DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2089502
Mikayla Pevac
Ejiogu advocates picking one’s battles to focus more time on self-care, framing survival as resistance. The chapter is fueled by her own experiences of racialized and gendered violence in the classroom, which inspired her desire to support fellow medical students. Her contribution offers important advice on navigating medical school with all its oppressive roadblocks. Degrees of Difference offers significant first-person narratives of graduate school experiences from women of color whose voices are often erased or marginalized in hegemonic discourses. The stories are deeply personal and powerful, and each chapter provides a different perspective that reveals the complexities of women of color’s choices, struggles, and resistance in the ivory tower. This book is not a how-to guide for graduate school but instead presents a collections of realistic experiences of women of color in academia. Most important, it shares with fellow women of color that they are not alone.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-27DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2089503
N. Yang
{"title":"Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet","authors":"N. Yang","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2089503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2089503","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46448992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-27DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2089497
E. Poliakova
{"title":"Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon","authors":"E. Poliakova","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2089497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2089497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41871693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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