Leigh Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leigh Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We are the villains”
Recent feminist media studies scholarship has tracked the television industry’s response to public discourse on structural racism, which reached a peak in 2020. This essay builds on this work by attending to a conceptual figure that we see occupying an increasingly important role in the post-2020 media landscape populated with “messy millennial women”—the Critical Woman of Color—and the cultural anxieties that, we argue, this figure is both desig…
Misinformation as woman
Designing Woman
This essay examines the introduction of public affairs programming to the gendered space of US daytime television at the end of the 1950s. The two series I analyse, Woman! and Purex Specials for Women, addressed their audiences as a collective of 'trapped housewives', conflating isolation and depression and offering the medium of television as solace for both. I argue that the primetime news and public affairs' imperative to inform and educate be…
Designing Woman
This essay examines the introduction of public affairs programming to the gendered space of US daytime television at the end of the 1950s. The two series I analyse, Woman! and Purex Specials for Women, addressed their audiences as a collective of 'trapped housewives', conflating isolation and depression and offering the medium of television as solace for both. I argue that the primetime news and public affairs' imperative to inform and educate be…
Misinformation as woman
We are the villains”
Recent feminist media studies scholarship has tracked the television industry’s response to public discourse on structural racism, which reached a peak in 2020. This essay builds on this work by attending to a conceptual figure that we see occupying an increasingly important role in the post-2020 media landscape populated with “messy millennial women”—the Critical Woman of Color—and the cultural anxieties that, we argue, this figure is both desig…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Celebrity culture (1 work) · Critical discourse analysis (1 work) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (1 work)