Kelton Mendes
Biographic Data
| ID | 514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelton Mendes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelton |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendes |
| SIGNATURE | MENDES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5891-0451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 359 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Tinder for teens: Youth digital intimate cultures and tech facilitated violence on Snapchat
Snapchat has long been a pivotal space for youth digital intimate and sexual cultures, as well as gendered and sexual risks and harms. Despite being one of the most widely used social media platforms among youth, there has been little in-depth research that connects Snapchat's unique features and affordances with young users' practices, behaviours, and experiences on the platform. Responding to this gap, our study used mixed methods to explore Br…
Tinder for Teens: An in-Depth Exploration of Youth Intimate Cultures and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on Snapchat
Snapchat has long been a pivotal space for youth digital intimate and sexual cultures, as well as gendered and sexual risks and harms. Despite being one of the most widely used social media platforms among youth in England and America, there has been little in-depth research that connects Snapchat’s unique features and affordances with an analysis of young users’ practices, behaviours, and experiences on the platform. Responding to this gap, our …
Archiving digital activism against sexual violence: The challenges for ethical witnessing in research practice
Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools
Reflections on Intersectional Feminist Approaches: Promoting an Ethics of Care in Research on Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence and Youth
Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is increasing in prevalence among young people and has significant implications for their mental health and well-being. In this article, we reflect on our experiences taking an intersectional feminist approach to research on TFSV among youth. In the feminist tradition of reflection, we critically examine how our intersectional feminist approach challenged and/or aligned with typical psychological rese…
Stop Being so Fkn Soft: Masculinity, Politics, and the Acceptance of Gender-Based Online Violence Myths Among Young Canadian Men
Defining manhood is a critical concern in contemporary politics, especially due to its increasing role in shaping cultural narratives toward gender-based violence-and in particular, toward gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse (GBTFVA). In this context, this study investigates how political affiliation influences perceptions of GBTFVA among young Canadian men. To explore this, we draw on a survey of 1297 young Canadian men who al…
Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: Exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland
Increasing rates of gender-based and sexual abuse, coupled with a rise in misogynistic influencers online, have become a growing issue in UK and Irish schools. This paper reports on the findings of a postlockdown study in England and Ireland that piloted workshops on gender-based and sexual violence. While most student responses were positive, we found that roughly 10% of girls and 20% of boys were resistant. In this paper, we explore these criti…
You Did It to Yourself”: An Exploratory Study of Myths About Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse Among Men
Gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse (GBTFVA) is a common experience for those engaging with digital technologies in their everyday lives. To better understand why GBTFVA persists, it is necessary to understand the false beliefs and cultural narratives that enable and sustain them. Drawing on the literature on rape myths, this paper explores the prevalence of seven gender-based online violence myths among Canadian men. To achiev…
Canadian Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programs: Gaps and Opportunities
Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention programs have long played an important part in both teaching the realities of GBV and training people in techniques to avert, mitigate, and respond to violence. This article examines the current state of GBV prevention training in Canada through an analysis of 81 GBV education programs provided by antiviolence organizations and universities. We identified notable gaps in topics relating to technology-facilit…
Reclaiming Digital Intimacy for Youth: Piloting Digital Sexual Violence Workshops for Under-18s During the Covid-19 Pandemic in England and Ireland
Online sexual abuse and violence have become an urgent global problem for women and girls, and in particular for poor women, women of colour and LGBTQ women (Ging and Siapera, 2019). Online sexual harassment and abuse is an especially urgent issue for young people, for whom digital spaces are key sites of communication, identity formation, self-expression and sexual interaction. The toxic dynamics that frequently underpin these complex entangleme…
MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence
This article explores how British secondary school students responded to and made sense of the rising public awareness of sexual violence in British society that emerged during lockdowns for COVID-19. Based on the findings from a 2021–2022 study conducted in five secondary schools, the article explores the gendered discrepancies in girls’ and boys’ awareness of violence against girls and women. In particular, it examines how the youth participant…
ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis
In this article, we perform a thematic analysis of a sample of 70 #ButNotMaternity Instagram posts. #ButNotMaternity is a hashtag that emerged in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic whereby the public, healthcare workers and campaigners shared experiences and concerns about pandemic maternity care restrictions and their disproportionate disadvantages for pregnant women. In the article, we analyse four themes that emerged from our them…
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages
Drawing from a thematic analysis of 960 tweets for English, 960 tweets for German, and 753 tweets for Mandarin, this article explores how the #MeToo movement was taken up and used in different ways in the first 12 months. The article achieves this by drawing on the concept of platform vernacular, identifying three new, at times overlapping, vernacular practices: spotlighting, interconnectivity, and meta conversations. We argue that these vernacul…
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter: Deconstructing affect and emotion in the #MeToo movement
In 2017, the #MeToo movement garnered international attention when millions of people used it to share experiences of sexual violence via social media. Through an analysis of 570 tweets randomly and purposively sampled within the first 24 hours of the movement, we were interested in answering the following questions: (1) What emotions are present in #MeToo tweets?; and (2) What are the vernacular practices in the #MeToo movement, and how do they …
Eight Tory leadership candidates declare themselves feminists”: Feminism and political campaigns
This study examines the co-optation of feminism by politicians. Adopting a case study approach, we explore three contemporary leaders who declared themselves feminists during political campaigns: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. We analyse how these politicians communicated a feminist identity during and after electoral campaigns. Drawing from a thematic analysis of 503 …
Sexual violence in contemporary educational contexts
Digital feminist labour: The Immaterial, Aspirational and Affective Labour of Feminist Activists and Fempreneurs
Through interviews with over fifty feminist activists, this article explores and documents the intersections between gender, labour, and technology across a range of contemporary western digital feminist campaigns or initiatives such as SlutWalk, Hollaback!, Everyday Sexism, and feminist publications such as Feminist Times, Feminist Current, The Vagenda and The F-Word. In addition to outlining the ways digital feminist labour, carried out predomi…
It started with this one post: MeToo, India and higher education
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old law student from India, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male Indian academics who allegedly harassed women. This led to the start of the #MeToo movement in India, where universities became key spaces of discussion, debate and activism. Due to failures of both the criminal justice system and the described capitalist, patriarchal, casteist structures of Indian academia, hundreds of survivors who…
Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms
A tweet by Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano using Tarana Burke’s phrase “me too” sparked a global movement. Despite the media attention #MeToo has garnered, little is known about how scholars have studied the movement. Through a synthesis review covering sources from 2006 to 2019, we learned that in this time period only 22 studies examined participation on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. We conclude that more research needs to be condu…
Digital footprints of #MeToo
When #MeToo exploded onto social media in October 2017, it dramatically ruptured public consciousness in revealing the widespread nature of sexual harassment and violence around the world. Yet, despite the global attention afforded to #MeToo, it was preceded by numerous initiatives, which we argue created digital footprints instrumental in rendering #MeToo intelligible. As such, the aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, it offers the first at…
Fempreneurs and Digital Feminist Publishing
Through semi-structured interviews, online ethnography, and secondary data analysis on a wide range of popular feminist blogs from Canada, the US and UK, this article teases out connections amongst ‘the business of feminism’ (Young 1998) between traditional print and contemporary digital feminist blogs. While both forms of publishing are highly affective, precarious and often rely on unpaid labour, feminist bloggers face some unique challenges, s…
Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture
In recent years, feminists have turned to digital technologies and social media platforms to dialogue, network, and organize against contemporary sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. The emergence of feminist campaigns such as #MeToo, #BeenRapedNeverReported, and Everyday Sexism are part of a growing trend of digital resistances and challenges to sexism, patriarchy, and other forms of oppression. Although recent scholarship has documented the ways…
Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures
In this article, we argue that social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter have facilitated an emergence of “digitized narratives” of sexual violence. These narratives are rooted in historical ways in which feminists have discursively articulated sexual violence, yet are shaped by distinctive “platform vernacular” or the conventions, affordances, and restrictions of the platforms in which they appear. Drawing on a qualitative content and criti…
Gender, Media and Protest: Changing Representations of the Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison in British Newspapers, 1913–2013
This article traces the ways in which the British suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was represented in national newspapers between 1913—the year she died—and 2013, the centenary of her death. We identify three key discourses through which Davison has been represented in four British newspapers throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first: delegitimisation, recuperation and trivialisation. In doing so, this paper provides original in…
MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism
(Opening paragraph) On 24th October 2017, the #MeToo hashtag began trending on Twitter. Although the phrase was initiated by African American women’s rights activists Tarana Burke in 2006, it gained widespread attention when actress Alyssa Milano used it as a Twitter hashtag in response to allegations of sexual assault by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Through the #MeToo hashtag, Milano encouraged members of the public to join in to showcas…
MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism
(Opening paragraph) On 24th October 2017, the #MeToo hashtag began trending on Twitter. Although the phrase was initiated by African American women’s rights activists Tarana Burke in 2006, it gained widespread attention when actress Alyssa Milano used it as a Twitter hashtag in response to allegations of sexual assault by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Through the #MeToo hashtag, Milano encouraged members of the public to join in to showcas…
SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media
SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movem
Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures
In this article, we argue that social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter have facilitated an emergence of “digitized narratives” of sexual violence. These narratives are rooted in historical ways in which feminists have discursively articulated sexual violence, yet are shaped by distinctive “platform vernacular” or the conventions, affordances, and restrictions of the platforms in which they appear. Drawing on a qualitative content and criti…
Speaking ‘unspeakable things: Documenting Digital Feminist Responses to Rape Culture
This paper examines the ways in which girls and women are using digital media platforms to challenge the rape culture they experience in their everyday lives; including street harassment, sexual assault, and the policing of the body and clothing in school settings. Focusing on three international cases, including the anti-street harassment site Hollaback!, the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported, and interviews with teenage Twitter activists, the pap…
Digital footprints of #MeToo
When #MeToo exploded onto social media in October 2017, it dramatically ruptured public consciousness in revealing the widespread nature of sexual harassment and violence around the world. Yet, despite the global attention afforded to #MeToo, it was preceded by numerous initiatives, which we argue created digital footprints instrumental in rendering #MeToo intelligible. As such, the aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, it offers the first at…
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter: Deconstructing affect and emotion in the #MeToo movement
In 2017, the #MeToo movement garnered international attention when millions of people used it to share experiences of sexual violence via social media. Through an analysis of 570 tweets randomly and purposively sampled within the first 24 hours of the movement, we were interested in answering the following questions: (1) What emotions are present in #MeToo tweets?; and (2) What are the vernacular practices in the #MeToo movement, and how do they …
The lady is a closet feminist!’ Discourses of backlash and postfeminism in British and American newspapers
This article examines news reports of the second-wave feminist movement during its most active political period (1968–82) in British and American newspapers, and specifically focuses on the ways postfeminist discourses were constructed and deployed. While most accounts of postfeminism relate to American cultural texts from the 1990s to the present day, they ignore (or are unaware of) the ways such discourses were constructed before this, or in di…
It started with this one post: MeToo, India and higher education
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old law student from India, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male Indian academics who allegedly harassed women. This led to the start of the #MeToo movement in India, where universities became key spaces of discussion, debate and activism. Due to failures of both the criminal justice system and the described capitalist, patriarchal, casteist structures of Indian academia, hundreds of survivors who…
Reporting The Women's Movement: News coverage of second-wave feminism in UK and US newspapers, 1968–1982
This article examines and compares how four British and American newspapers reported the second-wave feminist movement during its most active political period, 1968–1982. Through the use of both content analysis and critical discourse analysis, this study reveals that despite sociopolitical differences, both US (The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune) and UK (The Times, Daily Mirror) newspapers used a similar range of discourses when addressing …
Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: Exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland
Increasing rates of gender-based and sexual abuse, coupled with a rise in misogynistic influencers online, have become a growing issue in UK and Irish schools. This paper reports on the findings of a postlockdown study in England and Ireland that piloted workshops on gender-based and sexual violence. While most student responses were positive, we found that roughly 10% of girls and 20% of boys were resistant. In this paper, we explore these criti…
Sexual violence in contemporary educational contexts
Fempreneurs and Digital Feminist Publishing
Through semi-structured interviews, online ethnography, and secondary data analysis on a wide range of popular feminist blogs from Canada, the US and UK, this article teases out connections amongst ‘the business of feminism’ (Young 1998) between traditional print and contemporary digital feminist blogs. While both forms of publishing are highly affective, precarious and often rely on unpaid labour, feminist bloggers face some unique challenges, s…
Feminism rules! Now, where’s my swimsuit?’ Re-evaluating feminist discourse in print media 1968–2008
Using both content and critical discourse analysis, this article traces the emergence of and changes in the ways feminism has been discursively constructed in 998 British and American news articles between 1968 and 1982 – which I define as the ‘height’ of the Second Feminist Wave, and 2008 – marking 40 years after feminism began gaining momentum in both nations. In analysing the British Times, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail , and Guardian newspapers, a…
Feminist and Gender Media Studies: A Critical Overview
This paper offers a general overview of past, current, and developing issues and debates in the growing field of gender and feminist media studies. Its main aim is to provide for those who are new to the field, as well as advanced students and researchers, a broad sense of what is now significant and important area of academic research. It engages with the differences and similarities between gender and feminist media studies, gendered communicat…
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages
Drawing from a thematic analysis of 960 tweets for English, 960 tweets for German, and 753 tweets for Mandarin, this article explores how the #MeToo movement was taken up and used in different ways in the first 12 months. The article achieves this by drawing on the concept of platform vernacular, identifying three new, at times overlapping, vernacular practices: spotlighting, interconnectivity, and meta conversations. We argue that these vernacul…
Framing Feminism: News Coverage of the Women's Movement in British and American Newspapers, 1968–1982
This article analyses the framing in four British and American newspapers of the second-wave feminist movement during its most politically active period (1968–1982). Using content and critical discourse analysis of 555 news articles, the article investigates how movement members were represented, what problems and solutions to women's oppression/inequality were posed and whose voices were used. This paper identifies: opposition to the movement, s…
Commentary and criticism: Women, Migration and the Media
In an increasingly globalized world, the movement of bodies from geographical location to location occupies a great deal of our popular imagination, as well as our socio-political and economic live
Stop Being so Fkn Soft: Masculinity, Politics, and the Acceptance of Gender-Based Online Violence Myths Among Young Canadian Men
Defining manhood is a critical concern in contemporary politics, especially due to its increasing role in shaping cultural narratives toward gender-based violence-and in particular, toward gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse (GBTFVA). In this context, this study investigates how political affiliation influences perceptions of GBTFVA among young Canadian men. To explore this, we draw on a survey of 1297 young Canadian men who al…
Canadian Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programs: Gaps and Opportunities
Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention programs have long played an important part in both teaching the realities of GBV and training people in techniques to avert, mitigate, and respond to violence. This article examines the current state of GBV prevention training in Canada through an analysis of 81 GBV education programs provided by antiviolence organizations and universities. We identified notable gaps in topics relating to technology-facilit…
MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence
This article explores how British secondary school students responded to and made sense of the rising public awareness of sexual violence in British society that emerged during lockdowns for COVID-19. Based on the findings from a 2021–2022 study conducted in five secondary schools, the article explores the gendered discrepancies in girls’ and boys’ awareness of violence against girls and women. In particular, it examines how the youth participant…
Digital feminist labour: The Immaterial, Aspirational and Affective Labour of Feminist Activists and Fempreneurs
Through interviews with over fifty feminist activists, this article explores and documents the intersections between gender, labour, and technology across a range of contemporary western digital feminist campaigns or initiatives such as SlutWalk, Hollaback!, Everyday Sexism, and feminist publications such as Feminist Times, Feminist Current, The Vagenda and The F-Word. In addition to outlining the ways digital feminist labour, carried out predomi…
Commentary and Criticism: Representations of Sex Workers
Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools
You Did It to Yourself”: An Exploratory Study of Myths About Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse Among Men
Gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse (GBTFVA) is a common experience for those engaging with digital technologies in their everyday lives. To better understand why GBTFVA persists, it is necessary to understand the false beliefs and cultural narratives that enable and sustain them. Drawing on the literature on rape myths, this paper explores the prevalence of seven gender-based online violence myths among Canadian men. To achiev…
ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis
In this article, we perform a thematic analysis of a sample of 70 #ButNotMaternity Instagram posts. #ButNotMaternity is a hashtag that emerged in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic whereby the public, healthcare workers and campaigners shared experiences and concerns about pandemic maternity care restrictions and their disproportionate disadvantages for pregnant women. In the article, we analyse four themes that emerged from our them…
Feminist and Gender Media Studies: A Critical Overview
This paper offers a general overview of past, current, and developing issues and debates in the growing field of gender and feminist media studies. Its main aim is to provide for those who are new to the field, as well as advanced students and researchers, a broad sense of what is now significant and important area of academic research. It engages with the differences and similarities between gender and feminist media studies, gendered communicat…
Journalism and the Question of Citizenship
Classical political theory accorded representation to the citizen through the state. The modem, economic, addendum was that the state promised a minimal standard of living. The postmodem, cultural, guarantee is access to the technologies of communication. In essence, then, the last two hundred years have produced three zones of citizenship, with partially overlapping but nevertheless distinct historicities. These zones of citizenship are the poli…
Commentary and Criticism: Sex Workers in the News
Commentary and criticism: Women, Migration and the Media
In an increasingly globalized world, the movement of bodies from geographical location to location occupies a great deal of our popular imagination, as well as our socio-political and economic live
Commentary and criticism: Girls, Boys, and “Girlhood” Studies
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Labor, Media, and the Economy
In light of the current global economic crisis, where labor, government policies, consumer spending, and jobs are the subject of intense media focus and debate, we felt it was a good time to examin
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Humour, and Feminism
Commentary and Criticism: Representations of Sex Workers
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Humour and Feminism, Part Two
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Commentary and Criticism: Media Artists and Feminist Performance
In a 2007 article in the Washington Post, titled “Feminism and Art,” Blake Gopnik noted that Feminism can be thought of as the crucial movement of the recent past because it could act as an umbrell
Reading Chatelaine: Dr. Marion Hilliard and 1950s Women’s Health Advice
This article explores key themes and discourses surrounding women’s health advice written by Dr. Marion Hilliard between 1954 and 1957. Her works, published in eight Chatelaine articles and a 1957 book, are of particular significance because they demonstrate some of the many paradoxes Canadian women faced: women were told to stay at home and be housewives, but that they could have an identity of their own; that women too were sexual beings, but t…
Reporting The Women's Movement: News coverage of second-wave feminism in UK and US newspapers, 1968–1982
This article examines and compares how four British and American newspapers reported the second-wave feminist movement during its most active political period, 1968–1982. Through the use of both content analysis and critical discourse analysis, this study reveals that despite sociopolitical differences, both US (The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune) and UK (The Times, Daily Mirror) newspapers used a similar range of discourses when addressing …
The lady is a closet feminist!’ Discourses of backlash and postfeminism in British and American newspapers
This article examines news reports of the second-wave feminist movement during its most active political period (1968–82) in British and American newspapers, and specifically focuses on the ways postfeminist discourses were constructed and deployed. While most accounts of postfeminism relate to American cultural texts from the 1990s to the present day, they ignore (or are unaware of) the ways such discourses were constructed before this, or in di…
Framing Feminism: News Coverage of the Women's Movement in British and American Newspapers, 1968–1982
This article analyses the framing in four British and American newspapers of the second-wave feminist movement during its most politically active period (1968–1982). Using content and critical discourse analysis of 555 news articles, the article investigates how movement members were represented, what problems and solutions to women's oppression/inequality were posed and whose voices were used. This paper identifies: opposition to the movement, s…
Feminism rules! Now, where’s my swimsuit?’ Re-evaluating feminist discourse in print media 1968–2008
Using both content and critical discourse analysis, this article traces the emergence of and changes in the ways feminism has been discursively constructed in 998 British and American news articles between 1968 and 1982 – which I define as the ‘height’ of the Second Feminist Wave, and 2008 – marking 40 years after feminism began gaining momentum in both nations. In analysing the British Times, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail , and Guardian newspapers, a…
SlutWalk, Community and Cyberactivism
As the second of two chapters exploring results from interviews with 22 SlutWalk organizers from around the world, who were involved in the movement between 2011 and 2014, this chapter analyzes ways that satellite groups connected with one another, formed feminist communities, and fostered a larger SlutWalk movement. And while there is no doubt that offline activism (e.g. SlutWalk marches) was crucial to the movement’s success, this chapter highl…
Contextualizing the Issues
Chapter 2 provides an overview of literature, theories and concepts relevant to finding out how SlutWalk was represented in the media and experienced by organizers in eight nations (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the UK and the US) which hosted marches between 2011 and 2014. This includes a scholarly review of modern feminism, violence against women, the anti-rape movement and post and Third Wave feminism. It also…
SlutWalk Hierarchies and Organizers’ Roles
Engaging with the work of social movement scholar Manuel Castells, this chapter explores theories of horizontal, leaderless and ‘postmedia’ movements in relation to SlutWalk. Drawing from interviews with 22 organizers from around the world, I demonstrate the ways that SlutWalks differed in their organizational structures, strategies and priorities, which in some cases shifted dramatically over time. Unlike other contemporary social movements whic…
Conclusion
There is no doubt that the past several years have witnessed the beginnings of cultural change. For the first time, perhaps ever, feminism is enjoying not only a resurgence, but mass popular approval (Valenti 2014c). Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Emma Watson, Lena Dunham and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have all recently announced to the world that they are feminists (Vagianos 2014; Valenti 2014c). Women’s issues, particularly domestic and s…
Situating SlutWalk
In 2011, amidst a range of other global protests such as the Spanish Indignados, the Occupy Movement, and the Arab Spring, news began to emerge about a string of SlutWalk marches, held initially in Canada, and then spreading to the US, UK, Australia, Europe, South and Central Americas and Asia. Although the next two chapters will focus on representations of what SlutWalk is , this chapter begins by examining where and when it was represented as t…
Representing the Movement: SlutWalk is Misguided or Opposed
Where Chapter 4 focused on the frames and discourses used to construct SlutWalk as a movement which challenges rape culture and victim blaming, this chapter focuses on the way the movement was framed as misguided and/or opposed. This chapter pays particular attention to feminist critiques of the movement as one which plays to the male gaze, and thus is incapable of challenging patriarchal rape culture. It also focuses on the ways the movement was…
Representing the Movement: SlutWalk Challenges Rape Culture
This is the first of two chapters that explore representations of SlutWalk in both my mainstream news and feminist media samples. Both chapters were organized using the results of a frame analysis, derived with the help of a qualitative content analysis. Frames were established after asking questions such as: What is SlutWalk said to be about?; Whose voices were used?; What ‘sparked’ coverage of SlutWalk (e.g. a forthcoming march, or one which ha…
Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News , by Bonnie J. Dow
Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on Network News, by Bonnie J. Dow. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2014. xii, 239 pp. $95.00 US (cloth), $28.00 US (paper). In Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on Network News, Bonnie J. Dow provides yet another excellent contribution to field of feminist media history. Although several chapters are based on previously published work, this book brings them …
SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media
SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movem
Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures
In this article, we argue that social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter have facilitated an emergence of “digitized narratives” of sexual violence. These narratives are rooted in historical ways in which feminists have discursively articulated sexual violence, yet are shaped by distinctive “platform vernacular” or the conventions, affordances, and restrictions of the platforms in which they appear. Drawing on a qualitative content and criti…
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