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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 beyond alarmist accounts to ask what it is we really fear about these practices.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Postfeminism, Girls and Young Women, and Digital Media
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Sexual Self-Representations
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Valuable and Devalued Selves
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book usefully examines the ‘social media practices’ and ‘digital self-representations’ of girls and young women that comes with increasing access to the Internet. … Dobson’s work contributes to a growing body of scholarship that frames girls and women as agentic and empowered individuals, in a postfeminist era. … provides a head start for research in non-Western contexts, where work on postfeminism and postfeminist digital cultures has been scarce.” (Bernice Loh, Eras Journal, Vol. 18 (1), August, 2016)
“Postfeminist digital cultures gives us a deep insight into the complexity of online participation. It offers a nuanced, thoughtful and sympathetic analysis of the girls and young women negotiating postfeminist sensibility, while remaining critical of the cultural conditions of possibility that frame their negotiations. It is a must read for scholars – established and developing – interested in postfeminism, contemporary female subjectivity and digital cultures, while any of the analysis chapters should elicit a great student seminar discussion.” (Sarah Riley, Feminism & Psychology, May, 2017)
"This is a beautifully written and cool-headed approach to the social media practices of young women today. Dobson finds the perfect line between respecting girls as cultural producers and asking some hard questions about their digital cultures as ways of 'getting by' in postfeminism. She deftly turns the camera back to feminist cultural studies, offering some welcome reflection about the work of critique in politically complicated times. A rigorous, impressive, and important book that cuts through the debate about what girls are doing online, and what we should be doing about it. Dobson's work is right where we need to be." - Anita Harris, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Monash University, Australia
About the author
Amy Shields Dobson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. She previously lectured in Sociology and Gender at Monash University, Australia. Amy has published several articles and chapters in international anthologies on young people's social media practices and gender politics. Her current projects examine sexting in schools, and female genital cosmetic surgery in Australia, including the role of social media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postfeminist Digital Cultures
Book Subtitle: Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation
Authors: Amy Shields Dobson
Series Title: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137404206
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40839-6Published: 22 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40420-6Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-7491
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7505
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 202
Topics: Gender Studies, Feminism, Media Studies, Sociology, general, Sociology of the Body, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction