Feminist Media Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Feminist Media Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Locating disability within online body positivity discourses: an analysis of #DisabledAndCute73
“Watch me pretend to punch my girlfriend”: exploring youth responses to viral dating violence41
Introduction to the mixed-up politics of disinformation, anti-feminisms, and misogyny31
“You know, there are ‘hidden rules’”: Chinese female journalists’ gendered experiences in different work settings26
Unravelling the female image redefining and re-creation patterns in video mashups: from the perspective of gaze theory24
Microcelebrity around the globe: approaches to cultures of internet fame22
“F*cking politeness” and “staying sexy” while doing it: intimacy, interactivity and the feminist politics of true crime podcasts20
Final girls, feminism and popular culture20
Reconsidering television true crime and gendered authority in Allen v. Farrow16
There’s a trafficking jam on the underground railroad: black abolitionist icons and anti-trafficking media15
Feminism and Facebook : the possibility of political subjectivation experiences15
‘Alienated young man’ with plans for ‘murderous vengeance’? Examining portrayals of misogynistic incel violence in the US news media15
The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist “wellness” culture15
Feminist podcasting: a new discursive intervention on gender in Mainland China14
A New Doll in Texas: a feminist media analysis of senator wendy davis’s rhetorical framing as “Abortion Barbie”14
Saviors, nurturers, or magically insane: a braided reading of white women characters in three ecological narratives13
Theresa’s tears: gendering mediations of populist leadership failures in Brexit Britain12
“Just like everyone else:” queer representation in postmillennial Bollywood12
Affirmative aesthetics and wilful women: gender, space and mobility in contemporary cinema12
Strategic mouthing of words: the Chinese bromance drama Word of Honor , censorship and gender stereotypes11
Your Story, My Story11
Afterimages: on cinema, women and changing times11
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media10
Women’s rights campaigns in Lebanon:‎ A Bakhtinian-Foucauldian approach to voice and visibility10
Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south10
“How marketing consultants commodify social movements: Estelle Ellis, audience construction, and the women’s media market, 1945-1973”10
Rethinking gender discriminations in modern India: reading Qala from a feminist perspective10
Middle-aged women’s tears: rethinking Chinese popular feminism through Sisters Who Make Waves9
Female domestic work and social changes in a Brazilian fiction film: insights about the reflective dividend9
”You do it for the good times”: rival feminist readings of torture and kink in Grand Theft Auto V9
Bedroom eyes: women dressing and redressing in The Best Years of Our Lives9
“Compose yourself, like Michelle or Oprah”: a focus group study of the social identity of Black women newscasters in the US9
“Bring about the change we want to see”: Ram Devineni and the media spectacle of Priya’s Shakti9
Powerful in pearls and Willie Brown’s mistress: a computational analysis of gendered news coverage of Kamala Harris on the partisan extremes9
Academic freedom in publishing on gender-based violence and harassment9
New tools, new house: building a black feminist social (justice) media platform8
Leaning in or opting out? Women’s choices in Little Women and Mary Queen of Scots8
Banned in sports, ignored in media, stigmatized in society: transgender athletes in Turkey8
Locating epistemic (dis)privilege of female fans in select Indian narratives7
Publicizing transgender ballet dancers: a pas de deux of inclusion and reiterative gender norms7
Bonnets, braids, and big afros: the politics of Black characters’ hair7
 Women in Latin American Communication Research7
After account bombing: Chinese digital feminists haunt platform censorship as cyber living ghosts7
“The first woman football coach...“: A media study of female American football coaches, 1888-19467
Women, anger and emotion management in Love Island7
Honoured through blood7
Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship7
Making fun of feminism: British television comedy and the second wave7
The internet’s “transnational” boyfriend: digital (re)presentations of celebrity men7
“Voices against Silence”: a case study of the social impact of journalism7
Framing feminist protest: a content analysis of the glitter revolution6
Reflections on “thinking postfeminism transnationally”6
“I just re-evaluated what was beautiful when I went through treatment:” an analysis of Elly Mayday’s ovarian cancer narrative6
Here be monsters: monster porn and the crisis of masculinity6
“If they call me, ‘sir’: American newspaper representations of military women”6
Pigmentocracy and the performance of whiteness in contemporary photography: Yvonne Venegas’s San Pedro Garza and Dana Lixenberg’s united states6
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring6
Mapping the manosphere. Categorization of reactionary masculinity discourses in digital environment6
Hair, identity, and stigma: seeking beauty and media alternatives from the trajectory of curly and coily-haired Brazilian women6
Revisiting digital defense and Black feminism on social media6
“Sluts and nuts”: influences on the symbolic annihilation of women sources in sexual assault allegation news coverage6
#Metoo in China: transnational feminist politics in the Chinese context6
“A baby bump for women’s rights”: analysing Local and International Media Coverage of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Pregnancy6
Shrinking communicative space for media and gender equality civil society organizations6
The media capabilities of Druze women in Israel6
The feminization and misrepresentation of public relations practitioners in Turkish tv dramas6
Is feminism an asset or a burden? Media coverage of an Israeli feminist woman politician5
#SisterIdobelieveyou: Performative hashtags against patriarchal justice in Spain5
New outlets of digital feminist activism in China: the #SeeFemaleWorkers campaign5
“Moderate” gendering in Swedish gambling advertisements5
Resistance, reclamation and repair: the Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage5
Contentious practices of postfeminist audiencing: online discourse about cinematic feminisms in Birds of Prey5
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How US Audiences Create Meaning across Platforms by Andrea L. Press and Francesca Tripodi5
From Fritzl to #MeToo: twelve years of rape coverage in the British press5
Post-brelfie: the limits of intersubjectivity & intersectionality in spring 2020 virtual lactation selfie culture5
Collectivizing trauma: everyday experiences, empathy, and grassroots activism in Japan’s Flower Demonstration against sexual violence5
Sexual harassment and its vicissitudes: Jadavpur University, 2014-175
The (unlocated) in-game gender performativity in contemporary China: exploring gender swapping practices in the online game sphere5
A queer way of feeling: girl fans and personal archives of early Hollywood by Diana W. Anselmo5
Sexual harassment in academia: victim-survivors speaking out, the politics of naming, and (lack of) institutional accountability5
Listening to women’s personal stories about suicide: an online thematic analysis of the discourse on UK parenting forum Mumsnet5
Immanent cinematic girlhoods: the ordinary affects in/ofEighth Grade5
Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era5
Hegemonic masculinities and femininities in food industry packaging5
Heteromasculinity and queer reappropriation in music streaming practices: exploring homonegative curation by ordinary Spotify users4
Inability to love: change of intimate structure in the documentary Hard love4
Correction4
“The Supreme Court is poised to overturn #RoeVWade and I’m mad as hell”: a politically charged feminist discourse analysis4
“Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews4
The womb as Battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese Social Media4
The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals4
Stream of sadness: young black women’s racial trauma, police brutality and social media4
Blaming the victim, preserving the icon: the gendered moral work of celebrity sexual abuse scandals4
Sentimental education across the borders: Hindi soap opera and translation cultures on the Russophone Web4
“I have always said that I am not a feminist, but…”: moderate feminism in the narratives of Finnish women journalists who entered the field between 1960 and 19904
Discursive analysis of intersectional moral exclusions in online discussions on women to be repatriated to Finland from the Al-Hol camp4
The matrices of female bonding and lesbian sexuality: female homoerotic cinema in Mainland China4
Discourse coalitions against gender and sexual equality: antifeminism as a common denominator between the radical right and the mainstream?4
Say no to shame, waste, inequality—and leaks! Menstrual activism in the market for alternative period products4
Happy and entrepreneurial within the “here and now”: the constitution of the neoliberal female ageing subject4
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)4
Anxiety in defining the older woman in contemporary British television drama: Gold Digger (BBC one, 2019—) and Flesh and Blood (ITV, 2020—4
Instinct (ive) senses: the haptic experience of feminist postpornography4
Breaking the silence: exploring women’s experiences of participating in the #MeToo movement4
“Successful” identity transformation: the representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha4
Veteran journalists and ‘Vieilles Filles’: how gender, age and journalism congregate in The French Dispatch4
The Hockey Girls. The creation of a new collective subject: sisterhood and the empowerment of women4
“Paralysed and powerless”: a feminist critical discourse analysis of ‘Drink spiking’ in Australian news media4
An ethnographic co-design approach to promoting diversity in the games industry4
Not alone: a queer reading of Enola Holmes4
Feminist writer as the resistant reader in the feminist narrative4
The world is collapsing, but we are in love: Xianxia romance as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China4
Crisis of capitalist patriarchy: renegotiating masculinity and the heteronormative family in Kumbalangi Nights4
“This is oil country:” mediated transnational girlhood, Greta Thunberg, and patriarchal petrocultures4
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’3
Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping3
Civil rights exploitation film promotion as anti-feminist disinformation3
Looking Japanese: representing gender, privilege, and multiracial beauty queens in the media3
Gendering political conflict: the racialized and dehumanized use of gender on Facebook3
Internet memes and a female “Arab Spring”: mobilising online for the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Hungary in 2012-133
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”: the dangai industry, queer masculinity and the “opacity” of the state3
The rise of nande : a case study of digital feminism in China3
“Just a place to keep track of myself”: eating disorders, social media, and the quantified self3
Being a positive influence(r): Exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram3
Narrating women workers’ perceptions of sexism and change in the Australian screen postproduction sector before and after #MeToo3
Boys love media in Thailand: celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture3
Social pathways of traditional fairy tale heroines: Teaching social trajectories through a compare-contrast model with story maps3
Spain’s ‘First Feminist Film’: Feminism and Francoism,Margarita and the Wolf(Cecilia Bartolomé 1969)3
Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: postnatal depression narratives, treatment and reception on BBC radio, 1946–19853
The darker side of feminist scholarship: how online hate has become the norm3
When feminists are misidentified as traitors: nationalism, disinformation, and anti-feminism in Chinese cyberspace3
Fabricating babies: reproduction as production in Storks and The Boss Baby3
Welcome to this Brave Bro’s World: the (Re)production of hegemonic masculinity in a Chinese manosphere3
Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema3
#FrauenSagenNein - bridging the divide: analyzing the affective network of gender-critical alliances3
Cyberbullying and feminism in Pakistan: the stories of feminist activists in Lahore3
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and h3
“The butterfly effect”: sexual assault and the aftermath on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why3
Women in refugee camps: reel representation of marginality in the extremes3
Rebranding a pop-icon for the twenty-first century. Barbieland dysfunctional utopia and the spiritual journey of Greta Gerwig’s feminism3
Breathing spaces? The politics of embodiment, affect, and genre in Mare of Easttown and Happy Valley3
Embracing femininity: failure of the tomboy trope as an ideal arc for female roles in mainstream bollywood3
Uniform choices: elastic feminism and rhetoric surrounding the 2020 Olympic “pantywar”3
“You’re not here for the right reasons!” From The Bachelorette to Instagram Influencer3
Readers respond to Alison Bechdel: fan letters and the emotional afterlives of Dykes to Watch Out For3
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok3
Gendered cooking and Indian marriages: reading Tarla from a feminist viewpoint3
“My dear unwanted”: media discourse on sex-selective abortion in Montenegro3
Authorship and female stardom in Spanish cinema under Franco: Sara Montiel and Marujita Díaz3
From surgery to Cyborgs: a thematic analysis of popular media commentary on Instagram filters3
Popular music and intimate relationships: examples from the Top 40 Spanish radio show3
How Leikeli47 is glitching heteronormativity across the music industry3
Shepherdesses: new representations of rural women in Spain3
Witnessing #MeToo in Japan: mapping digital footprints in online news comment sections2
When the Black lives that matter are not our own: digital Black feminism and a dialectic of self and community2
Negotiating attractiveness: Korean American perceptions of body image and identity in light of the Korean Wave2
Dramatising a contemporary childhood sexual abuse narrative: reinforcing a hierarchy of victims2
Behind perfection: daylong obsession, Joy, and torment of social media2
“Surface and depth: ambivalence as postfeminist ideal in Barbie2
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China2
A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality2
The relationship between instagram use and body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and internalization of beauty ideals: a correlational study of Iranian women2
Surviving R. Kelly : a budding space for Black feminist discourses?2
Instagram vixens: the racialized sexual scripts of erotic labor online2
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland2
Imagining “We” in the age of “I”: romance and social bonding in contemporary culture2
Adolescent gender differences in internet safety education2
Letters to the (special) editors of Feminist Media Studies2
History or vanity? The first “female” referees in the history of the FIFA World Cup and its reflections on Twitter2
Formulating the discourse of pro-work conservatism: a critical discourse analysis of Weibo posts in response to the implementation of the three-child policy2
“I think the men are behind it”: reproductive labour and the horror of second wave feminism2
The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram2
Subverting technologies of gender in male-dominated gender regimes: (self) representations of Spanish and Swedish women filmmakers2
No such thing as the female eye: ditching gender-binary categories in art perception2
An analysis of Josh condom commercials: perspectives on female sexuality in Pakistani culture2
Men not going their own way: a thick big data analysis of #MGTOW and #Feminism tweets2
Gender violence or tradition?: media coverage of child/forced marriage in US newspapers2
Against the odds: social media and resistance2
Get your head out of the game: framing of sportswomen and concussions2
Queer uploaders on Douyin : traffic chasing, identity expression, and media regulation2
Butch Barbie2
No wrong way to be a woman: media coverage of Serena Williams as a mother2
“It’s my favorite kind of cake. Gigantic.”: healthism, postfeminist disruptions, and rhetorical “Othering” in The Mindy Project2
“Having an unfair advantage” vs “playing by the Rules”: media discourses of trans Women’s participation in the Olympics2
Positioning gender in time-travel: time-travel TV dramas as dialogic resources for constructing and re-imagining identity among Mainland Chinese postgraduates in Hong Kong2
Deconstructing the otherness of Moroccan-Dutch people through cinema: Meskina as a counter narrative2
Policing the “Russian diva”: gymnastics broadcasts and the idealisation of the girl-child athlete2
‘Home-wreckers and their bastards must be partying in the sewer’: discourses of wifeist antifeminism2
“‘I’m not weird. I’m just like everybody else’: intersections of embodiment, incarceration, and mental illness on Wentworth and Orange Is the New Black”2
Institutionalized ‘bad girls’: adolescent female folk devils in Canadian newspapers between 1991 and 20122
Dodging negativity like it’s my freaking job: marketing postfeminist positivity through Beachbody fitness on Instagram2
Genocide, surveillance, and babies: “embodied propaganda” and the anti-abortion to conspiracy pipeline2
An old mind in a young body: womanhood between oppression and expression in Miss Granny2
Screening difficult women: 21stcentury reclamations of women’s history2
Notable enough? The questioning of women’s biographies on Wikipedia2
Recounting feminicide: the relational accountability of citizen data practices2
Hectic slowness: digital temporalities of precarious care from a Global South perspective2
Perceived gendered expectations: a challenge for Generation Z women2
A monster, a pervert, and an anti-hero: the discursive construction of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Louis C.K. in humorous #MeToo memes2
Transnational (post)feminist television drama made in Spain2
Screening women’s trauma: constructing trauma for television in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale2
Blaming and shaming in the shadow structure: individual resistance towards gender equality work as expressions of social conflict2
Feminism, activism and non-consensual pornography: analyzing efforts to end “revenge porn” in the United States2
A historiography intervention through 90’s pop music in Turkey: an interview with İlker Hepkaner and Sezgin İnceel2
‘Fight pandemics with protective masks or gender?’ Emerging collective identities and anti-gender movements on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis in Sweden2
Gender status inertia in biographical films: an overview of the motion picture industry from 1900 to 20172
The post-queer Sensibility: a review of Kate McNicholas Smith’s lesbians on television Lesbians on television: new queer visibility and the lesbian normal 2
#RespectLisa, stop racism: intersectional discrimination in global K-pop2
The enactment of rhetorical citizenship in a cultural journalism podcast: empowering low-skilled women migrants2
More than numbers: an intersectional examination of media portrayals of formerly incarcerated Women Gladys and Jamie Scott2
HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports2
Letting go of self-transformation? lurkers’ tactics of body acceptance in and against an online support group for polycystic ovary syndrome2
Video activism in feminist movements in Turkey2
The exploitation of Sue Lyon: Lolita (1962), archival research, and questions for film history2
Unmasking the ideological work of violence in music videos: findings from ethnographic audience research into contemporary sexual politics2
Data activism and social media in the case of racialized and gendered deaths and disappearances2
The Hidden Work of Women: Commissioning and Development in British Television Drama2
Contesting feminism: pedagogical problems in classical Hollywood cinema, feminist theory, and media studies2
This Barbie has melancholy feminism: framing empowerment and grievable lives2
Complicated femininity: the character of Sonto Molefe in South African telenovela Gomora2
Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film2
The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo: a case study of Southern Weekly2
Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture2
Gender as a central site of inquiry within mis- and disinformation studies2
Negotiating ugly feelings: affect and body positivity in postfeminist times2
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