"Still alive and kicking" : girl bloggers and feminist politics in a "postfeminist" age
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kearney, Mary Celeste, 1962- | |
| dc.creator | Keller, Jessalynn Marie | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-14T21:52:26Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T22:34:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T22:34:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2013 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2013-10-14T21:52:27Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation refutes the notion that contemporary girls are uninterested in feminism by exploring how teenage girls are engaging in feminist activism as bloggers. Using a feminist cultural studies approach I analyze how girl bloggers produce feminist identities and practices that challenge hegemonic postfeminist and neoliberal cultural politics. I employ feminist ethnographic methods, including a series of in-depth interviews with U.S. -based girl feminist bloggers and an online collaborative focus group, as well as a discursive and ideological textual analysis of girl-produced feminist blogs. Using these methods, I privilege girls' voices while proposing a model for conducting feminist ethnography online. In doing so, I demonstrate how girls' feminist blogging functions as an activist practice through networked counterpublics, intervening in mainstream and sometimes even commercial public space. I position this activism within a lengthy tradition of American feminism, analyzing how my participants remain in conversation with feminist history while simultaneously responding to their unique cultural climate. Finally, I argue that we must recognize the political importance of girls' feminist blogging by theorizing it as an emergent citizenship practice that makes feminism an accessible discourse to contemporary teenage girls. | en |
| dc.description.department | Radio-Television-Film | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21560 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.subject | Digital media | en |
| dc.subject | Girls | en |
| dc.subject | Feminism | en |
| dc.subject | Postfeminism | en |
| dc.subject | Neoliberalism | en |
| dc.subject | Blogging | en |
| dc.title | "Still alive and kicking" : girl bloggers and feminist politics in a "postfeminist" age | en |