Simidele Dosekun
Biographic Data
| ID | 114781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simidele Dosekun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simidele |
| FAMILY NAME | Dosekun |
| SIGNATURE | DOSEKUN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-6908-6863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Marry the market
This article examines the romancing of finance in and through popular financial feminisms, a transnational cultural terrain in which women claiming financial insight and expertise seek to ‘empower’ other women by sharing accessible and actionable advice. Such actors frequently promote stock market investing, claiming that engagement with financial markets represents the surest and most reliable means for women to achieve long-term financial secur…
Popular Financial Feminisms
This article introduces and conceptualizes a new transnational phenomenon that we call “popular financial feminisms.” Popular financial feminisms are highly mediated projects in which women claiming to have insight and expertise in financial matters—whether pertaining to everyday money management, the workings of complex financial instruments and investments, or anything in between—are moving to “empower” other women with it, to disseminate or sh…
Beyond ‘reifying whiteness’ in feminist media studies
In this talk, I turn a Black and transnational feminist reflexive eye on the field of feminist media studies, to surface for critical consideration a certain ‘story that we tell’ about race, more specifically about the visibly dominant whiteness, in the global North, of the kinds of media texts and cultures that commonly comprise our objects of analysis. I show that there is a repeated critical claim to the effect that the texts and cultures ‘rei…
Re-fashioning feminist subjects
In this conversation with Samantha Pinto, Simidele Dosekun and Srila Roy trace the ways that gender and sexuality are both highly local and deeply transnational in the current landscape of neoliberalism. Dosekun's Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture looks to beauty industry and practices in Lagos to explore the tension between self-construction and media representation in a world of savvy consumption and comp…
The problems and intersectional politics of “#BeingFemaleinNigeria”
In June 2015, Nigerian women on Twitter convened around the hashtag “#BeingFemaleinNigeria” (#BFIN) to represent their experiences, observations, and critiques of patriarchal oppression in Nigeria. This article parses the content and internal politics of #BFIN as a Nigerian feminist hashtag campaign. Given that there is no singular Nigerian female experience, and that experience is not unmediated, the article asks: as represented by participants …
African Feminisms
Response by the author
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Beyond Black Beauty Politics
"Beyond Black Beauty Politics: A Review of Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri." Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(1), pp. 109–110
Reflections on “thinking postfeminism transnationally”
This brief piece looks back to and forward from the 2015 article published in this journal, “For Western Girls Only? Postfeminism as Transnational Culture.” I reflect on how the concept of postfeminism as “transnational culture” has been taken up by other feminist media and cultural scholars, and also where, that is to say, questioning where the “transnational” is considered to be
Feminist Book Publishing Today
In this piece, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, publisher of Cassava Republic Press based in Abuja (Nigeria) and London (UK), discusses with Simidele Dosekun her founding and continued visions for the press, how these translate into the daily management and operations of the business, and the opportunities and challenges publishing presents for feminist, Black and African political purposes, including transnationally. We also discuss what it means to run and b…
Fashioning Postfeminism
African Feminisms
Skin bleaching in Black Atlantic zones
Shirley Anne Tate Skin bleaching in Black Atlantic zones: shade shifters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 136 pp. ISBN 9781137498441, £69.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781349698202, £49.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781137498465, £39.99 (ebk)
Performativity
Performativity is an interdisciplinary theoretical concept that originates in the philosophy of language of John L. Austin but more recently has been influentially elaborated by the feminist philosopher Judith Butler. It can be understood as discursive practice that engenders or brings into being its very referent, including the embodied subject
For Western Girls Only
Much of the literature on post-feminism concerns the “Western” world and variously conceptualizes post-feminism as “Western culture.” This article argues that, as a result, feminist cultural scholars have not sufficiently imagined, theorized, or empirically researched the possibility of post-feminism in non-Western cultural contexts. By briefly reviewing what has been said in the literature about post-feminism and the non-West, and by putting thi…
Hey, You Stylized Woman There
This article presents an uncomfortable reflexive account of a feminist poststructuralist research project on young women in Lagos, Nigeria who dress in what I call "hyper-feminine style." It reflects on the messy processes by which I framed the research and recruited participants, and considers how the women who did or did not eventually take part exercised agency to resist the terms of my address. The article illustrates the usefulness of Butler…
Rape is a huge issue in this country’
This article considers how the issue of rape in South Africa is discursively constructed by women who have not experienced it. Taking a feminist discursive analytic approach to data from 15 semi-structured interviews, the article identifies four interpretative repertoires which the women used in their talk of rape. These are the statistics repertoire, invoking putatively objective rape statistics; crime repertoire, locating rape within a crisis o…
We live in fear, we feel very unsafe’
This article explores the meanings of rape for 15 women at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, who claim to have not experienced rape. It is based upon qualitative interviews with these women and offers a discursive analysis of their talk. The article shows that the women tend to distance the actual occurrence and threat of rape. At the same time, they assume a natural vulnerability to rape with the result that they imagine and fear …
For Western Girls Only
Much of the literature on post-feminism concerns the “Western” world and variously conceptualizes post-feminism as “Western culture.” This article argues that, as a result, feminist cultural scholars have not sufficiently imagined, theorized, or empirically researched the possibility of post-feminism in non-Western cultural contexts. By briefly reviewing what has been said in the literature about post-feminism and the non-West, and by putting thi…
Hey, You Stylized Woman There
This article presents an uncomfortable reflexive account of a feminist poststructuralist research project on young women in Lagos, Nigeria who dress in what I call "hyper-feminine style." It reflects on the messy processes by which I framed the research and recruited participants, and considers how the women who did or did not eventually take part exercised agency to resist the terms of my address. The article illustrates the usefulness of Butler…
The problems and intersectional politics of “#BeingFemaleinNigeria”
In June 2015, Nigerian women on Twitter convened around the hashtag “#BeingFemaleinNigeria” (#BFIN) to represent their experiences, observations, and critiques of patriarchal oppression in Nigeria. This article parses the content and internal politics of #BFIN as a Nigerian feminist hashtag campaign. Given that there is no singular Nigerian female experience, and that experience is not unmediated, the article asks: as represented by participants …
Rape is a huge issue in this country’
This article considers how the issue of rape in South Africa is discursively constructed by women who have not experienced it. Taking a feminist discursive analytic approach to data from 15 semi-structured interviews, the article identifies four interpretative repertoires which the women used in their talk of rape. These are the statistics repertoire, invoking putatively objective rape statistics; crime repertoire, locating rape within a crisis o…
Beyond ‘reifying whiteness’ in feminist media studies
In this talk, I turn a Black and transnational feminist reflexive eye on the field of feminist media studies, to surface for critical consideration a certain ‘story that we tell’ about race, more specifically about the visibly dominant whiteness, in the global North, of the kinds of media texts and cultures that commonly comprise our objects of analysis. I show that there is a repeated critical claim to the effect that the texts and cultures ‘rei…
Reflections on “thinking postfeminism transnationally”
This brief piece looks back to and forward from the 2015 article published in this journal, “For Western Girls Only? Postfeminism as Transnational Culture.” I reflect on how the concept of postfeminism as “transnational culture” has been taken up by other feminist media and cultural scholars, and also where, that is to say, questioning where the “transnational” is considered to be
We live in fear, we feel very unsafe’
This article explores the meanings of rape for 15 women at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, who claim to have not experienced rape. It is based upon qualitative interviews with these women and offers a discursive analysis of their talk. The article shows that the women tend to distance the actual occurrence and threat of rape. At the same time, they assume a natural vulnerability to rape with the result that they imagine and fear …
Rape is a huge issue in this country’
This article considers how the issue of rape in South Africa is discursively constructed by women who have not experienced it. Taking a feminist discursive analytic approach to data from 15 semi-structured interviews, the article identifies four interpretative repertoires which the women used in their talk of rape. These are the statistics repertoire, invoking putatively objective rape statistics; crime repertoire, locating rape within a crisis o…
For Western Girls Only
Much of the literature on post-feminism concerns the “Western” world and variously conceptualizes post-feminism as “Western culture.” This article argues that, as a result, feminist cultural scholars have not sufficiently imagined, theorized, or empirically researched the possibility of post-feminism in non-Western cultural contexts. By briefly reviewing what has been said in the literature about post-feminism and the non-West, and by putting thi…
Hey, You Stylized Woman There
This article presents an uncomfortable reflexive account of a feminist poststructuralist research project on young women in Lagos, Nigeria who dress in what I call "hyper-feminine style." It reflects on the messy processes by which I framed the research and recruited participants, and considers how the women who did or did not eventually take part exercised agency to resist the terms of my address. The article illustrates the usefulness of Butler…
Performativity
Performativity is an interdisciplinary theoretical concept that originates in the philosophy of language of John L. Austin but more recently has been influentially elaborated by the feminist philosopher Judith Butler. It can be understood as discursive practice that engenders or brings into being its very referent, including the embodied subject
African Feminisms
Skin bleaching in Black Atlantic zones
Shirley Anne Tate Skin bleaching in Black Atlantic zones: shade shifters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 136 pp. ISBN 9781137498441, £69.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781349698202, £49.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781137498465, £39.99 (ebk)
Fashioning Postfeminism
African Feminisms
Response by the author
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Black Beauty Politics
"Beyond Black Beauty Politics: A Review of Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri." Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(1), pp. 109–110
Reflections on “thinking postfeminism transnationally”
This brief piece looks back to and forward from the 2015 article published in this journal, “For Western Girls Only? Postfeminism as Transnational Culture.” I reflect on how the concept of postfeminism as “transnational culture” has been taken up by other feminist media and cultural scholars, and also where, that is to say, questioning where the “transnational” is considered to be
Feminist Book Publishing Today
In this piece, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, publisher of Cassava Republic Press based in Abuja (Nigeria) and London (UK), discusses with Simidele Dosekun her founding and continued visions for the press, how these translate into the daily management and operations of the business, and the opportunities and challenges publishing presents for feminist, Black and African political purposes, including transnationally. We also discuss what it means to run and b…
The problems and intersectional politics of “#BeingFemaleinNigeria”
In June 2015, Nigerian women on Twitter convened around the hashtag “#BeingFemaleinNigeria” (#BFIN) to represent their experiences, observations, and critiques of patriarchal oppression in Nigeria. This article parses the content and internal politics of #BFIN as a Nigerian feminist hashtag campaign. Given that there is no singular Nigerian female experience, and that experience is not unmediated, the article asks: as represented by participants …
Beyond ‘reifying whiteness’ in feminist media studies
In this talk, I turn a Black and transnational feminist reflexive eye on the field of feminist media studies, to surface for critical consideration a certain ‘story that we tell’ about race, more specifically about the visibly dominant whiteness, in the global North, of the kinds of media texts and cultures that commonly comprise our objects of analysis. I show that there is a repeated critical claim to the effect that the texts and cultures ‘rei…
Re-fashioning feminist subjects
In this conversation with Samantha Pinto, Simidele Dosekun and Srila Roy trace the ways that gender and sexuality are both highly local and deeply transnational in the current landscape of neoliberalism. Dosekun's Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture looks to beauty industry and practices in Lagos to explore the tension between self-construction and media representation in a world of savvy consumption and comp…
Marry the market
This article examines the romancing of finance in and through popular financial feminisms, a transnational cultural terrain in which women claiming financial insight and expertise seek to ‘empower’ other women by sharing accessible and actionable advice. Such actors frequently promote stock market investing, claiming that engagement with financial markets represents the surest and most reliable means for women to achieve long-term financial secur…
Popular Financial Feminisms
This article introduces and conceptualizes a new transnational phenomenon that we call “popular financial feminisms.” Popular financial feminisms are highly mediated projects in which women claiming to have insight and expertise in financial matters—whether pertaining to everyday money management, the workings of complex financial instruments and investments, or anything in between—are moving to “empower” other women with it, to disseminate or sh…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Feminism (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works)