An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies

This book emphasizes exploring the ways in which the category of generation is mobilized to gloss sexism, racism, ageism, class oppression, and the effects of neoliberalism. It examines a range of media forms, and practices of media production, intervention, and representation. It was first published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.

Introduction: Why "intergenerational feminist media studies"? 1. Pretty past it? Interrogating the post-feminist makeover of ageing, style, and fashion 2. Handover women: Hong Kong women filmmakers and the intergenerational melodrama of infidelity 3. Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times 4. "Older-wiser-lesbians" and "baby-dykes": mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema 5. Growing pains: feminisms and intergenerationality in digital games 6. In the silences of a newsroom: age, generation, and sexism in the Indian television newsroom 7. Fifty shades of fandom: the intergenerational permeability of Twilight fan culture 8. Bridges, ladders, sparks, and glue: celebrating and problematizing "girl-driven" intergenerational feminist activism 9. The rhetoric of the mistake in adult narratives of youth sexuality: the case of Amanda Todd 10. Intergenerational feminism and media: a roundtable