Feminist Media Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Feminist Media Studies is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sentimental education across the borders: Hindi soap opera and translation cultures on the Russophone Web66
‘Alienated young man’ with plans for ‘murderous vengeance’? Examining portrayals of misogynistic incel violence in the US news media50
Correction44
“Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews31
Saviors, nurturers, or magically insane: a braided reading of white women characters in three ecological narratives30
Framing feminist protest: a content analysis of the glitter revolution29
“Successful” identity transformation: the representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha25
“How marketing consultants commodify social movements: Estelle Ellis, audience construction, and the women’s media market, 1945-1973”24
Gender “frames” in media: select examples of popular feminism and popular misogyny from India24
Microcelebrity around the globe: approaches to cultures of internet fame22
Factors influencing occupational gender segregation of videojournalists in Taiwanese TV news channels20
Contentious practices of postfeminist audiencing: online discourse about cinematic feminisms in Birds of Prey18
The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist “wellness” culture17
Letters to the (special) editors of Feminist Media Studies17
New outlets of digital feminist activism in China: the #SeeFemaleWorkers campaign17
The darker side of feminist scholarship: how online hate has become the norm16
“‘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”16
Fabricating babies: reproduction as production in Storks and The Boss Baby15
This Barbie has melancholy feminism: framing empowerment and grievable lives15
Internet memes and a female “Arab Spring”: mobilising online for the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Hungary in 2012-1315
“My dear unwanted”: media discourse on sex-selective abortion in Montenegro15
#FrauenSagenNein - bridging the divide: analyzing the affective network of gender-critical alliances14
Adolescent gender differences in internet safety education14
The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo: a case study of Southern Weekly14
Screening women’s trauma: constructing trauma for television in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale14
Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer & Feminism in Praxis13
Positioning gender in time-travel: time-travel TV dramas as dialogic resources for constructing and re-imagining identity among Mainland Chinese postgraduates in Hong Kong13
Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms12
Making Australian institutions in newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement: exceptionalism, co-production and agency12
Emergent distribution strategies and feminist media practices: the case of Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)12
Women’s affective labor in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s12
Home is where the hate is: gender, race, class and the domestic abuse plotline in fiction and on screen12
Tennis representations in the 20th-century Brazilian press: women’s bodies in focus11
The blame game: how video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse11
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show11
WhatsApp and participation in sexual and reproductive health for women with disabilities in Nairobi11
Gender-equal sexism: a covert and subtle form of gender discrimination11
“What a nasty girl!” incivility and gendered symbolic violence in news discussions11
Epistemologies of ignorance in constructions of fairness and biology: the online swimming community responds to Lia Thomas’ inclusion in women’s swimming events11
Correction10
“Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media: humorous motherhood counter-discourse10
Beyond feminist heroines: framing the discourses on Kurdish women fighters in three types of Western media10
The affective circulation of the feminist movement via the hashtag #seAcabó and its portrayal in the traditional digital media10
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence10
Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies: an exploratory analysis10
“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities10
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media10
Gold diggers in the digital age: Unraveling the “Lao Nü” stereotype in contemporary Chinese social media10
“The Story of You and Me”: strategic ambiguity in the paratextual reception of Kim Ji-Young, Born 198210
Transnational Iranian poetics of resistance: the Green Movement and Iranian women’s agency in Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014)10
Men’s comments on elite women athletes: cultural narratives around gender and sport on Instagram9
Diya : coerced abortion and reproductive autonomy in India9
African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT)9
Women on top? Challenging the “mancession” narrative in the 2010s chick flick9
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies: Zimbabwe’s Bustop TV9
“Women need not apply”: Sylvia Earle, binary oscillations, and the ecofeminist rhetoric of Mission Blue9
Perils of the princess 2.0: an (auto)ethnographic study of girls playing Super Mario Bros. 29
Has feminism “gone too far?” A mixed-methods exploration of perceptions of digital feminist activism9
“Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: imaginaries of a post-violent AI world9
Have a cup of coffee: the techno-spatial tactics of female urbanites and the production of “mobile publicness” in digital urban China9
The ‘emotional contract’: on obligation and guilt in women influencers’ work with brands9
Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence8
Suffering as the counter-discourse: the construction of an affective community through feminist podcasts in China8
Sex Work in Popular Culture8
“The victim lived an intense life”: media (mis)representations of femicide crimes in the Republic of Cyprus8
Conceptualizing academic sustainability8
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder8
Feeling the future: Wonder Woman discourse and the demands of media response7
“Locked, loaded, and online”: gendered critiques of Israeli security through the lens of female gun owners7
From “borking” to getting “kavanaughed”: language, reputation, and the importance of a (male) name7
Educate yourself! Exploring feminist politics and self-development in Danish online fat activism7
Until death do us part: gendered media coverage of the deaths of Israeli male and female public figures7
“Can I become a true feminist?”: An interpretive analysis on the mirroring experience of young Korean women7
Framing women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic7
From margins to mainstream: a critical network analysis of the #MosqueMeToo hashtag7
The red lipstick movement: exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal7
Correction7
Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary7
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre:The Flowers of War7
Sticking around: hobbyhorsing, digital transgression, and gender-based violence in TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube commentary7
Fighting in the shadow of heteropatriarchy: feminists versus gay men’s discursive battle over surrogacy in China6
Protection or commodification of women? Discursive construction of bridewealth on Chinese social media6
How horror films constructs Blackness: examples of White supremacist media’s enforcement of necropolitics in genre film6
“By women for women” communicating gender discourse in r/FemaleDatingStrategy6
Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation6
Gendered framing and victim-blaming in fictional sexual assault survivor portrayals6
#RepresentationMatters on TV: a critical textual analysis of intersectional representation at work on NBC’s Superstore6
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China6
16 feminist media studies scholars, 7 questions about working in the university (and beyond)6
Persistent racialized commodification amidst technological innovation: exceptionalist Filipina bride representations from analog to digital6
The London BFI Flare LGBTQ+ film festival: “A celebration of difference and diversity” or normative hegemony?6
Neoliberal feminism and intergenerational relations at work: an analysis of media representations of feminist mentorship in popular culture6
Provocative eroticism: anger in fourth-wave feminist Danish pop culture6
“Fair-skinned, young and slim” or “Kardashian-style”: UK-based female Chinese international students’ self-presentation on mobile dating applications6
“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times6
Sovereign attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and affective politics in Pakistan6
Distinct information ecologies? Gender knowledge production in German digital legacy and counterpublic media6
Reading the queer in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”6
Bargaining with patriarchy or converting men into pro-feminists: social-mediated frame alignment in feminist connective activism6
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)5
The womb as battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese social media5
Honoured through blood5
“My feminism is better than yours!” the lack of intersectionality in feminist digital discourses in Ghana5
The world is collapsing, but we are in love: Xianxia romance as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China5
Art-based research, decoloniality & gender-based violence: Voices of women students from India5
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland5
Negotiating attractiveness: Korean American perceptions of body image and identity in light of the Korean Wave5
Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture5
Veteran journalists and ‘Vieilles Filles’: how gender, age and journalism congregate in The French Dispatch5
“If Something Ever Happened, I’d Have No One to Tell:” how online sexism perpetuates young women’s silence5
“She’s everything”: feminism and the Barbie movie5
The media capabilities of Druze women in Israel5
Single parenthood, the non-residential parent and co-parenting in Swedish daily news5
The rise of nande : a case study of digital feminism in China5
Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era5
”You do it for the good times”: rival feminist readings of torture and kink in Grand Theft Auto V5
Locating disability within online body positivity discourses: an analysis of #DisabledAndCute5
Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: the case of Malaysian former-Muslim women5
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How US Audiences Create Meaning across Platforms by Andrea L. Press and Francesca Tripodi5
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring5
“Wifeys, bitches, and sluts”: the gender burden and other obstacles behind the creation of television’s antiheroines5
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media5
Watching National Treasure , creating danmei tongren : stories of power and the power of stories4
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism4
Examining gender representations in the pilot episode of the anime Attack on Titan4
Agents of Chaos: The Monstrous Feminine in Killing Eve4
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China4
Spain’s ‘First Feminist Film’: Feminism and Francoism,Margarita and the Wolf(Cecilia Bartolomé 1969)4
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok4
When feminists are misidentified as traitors: nationalism, disinformation, and anti-feminism in Chinese cyberspace4
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’4
Facing exclusion in neoliberal times: technologies of the self of older women in the series Grace and Frankie4
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”? Tracing the implications of a song in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)4
“Situating and sustaining feminist action: lessons from digital games inclusivity organizing”4
Structural-violence framing, de-gendering discourse, and muted misogyny: the official media’s representation of gender-based violence in contemporary china4
Mickey’s main squeeze: the gendered portrayal of Minnie Mouse in the early era (1928 – 1935) and modern era (2013 – 2019)4
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”: the dangai industry, queer masculinity and the “opacity” of the state4
A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality4
Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping4
Co-categorizing Chinese “medicine girls”: a multimodal membership categorization analysis of trans women’s representations in a news video4
Data activism and social media in the case of racialized and gendered deaths and disappearances4
Octopuses, remoras, and surfers: speculative stories from the offline space of digital circulation in Cuba4
Women’s safety work on dating apps and rape culture4
You’re doing it wrong: the governance of motherhood through mommy blogs4
#metoo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China4
The platformization of socially constructed gender realities: the ‘Fat Cat incident’ (2024)4
HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports4
Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film4
Dramatising a contemporary childhood sexual abuse narrative: reinforcing a hierarchy of victims4
Alternative fairy-tale endings and the main character syndrome: “happily ever after” for the woke generation4
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature4
Being a positive influence(r): exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram4
A feminist critical discourse analysis of Nepali feminist hashtag movements on social media3
Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other3
The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS3
“The women are every bit as good as the men”: a postfeminist critique of LPGA players’ quest for equity in golf3
“I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”: a narrative analysis of Chrissy Teigen’s social media describing her miscarriage3
Narratives of relationality and time in fertility preservation vlogs3
Gendered power relations in the digital age: an analysis of Japanese women’s media choice and use within a global context3
Fear, freaks, and fat phobia: an examination of howMy 600 Lbs Lifedisplays “fat” Black women3
Strategic femininity on Facebook: women’s experiences negotiating gendered discourses on social media3
Fascism, nature and communication: a discursive-affective analysis of cuteness in ecofascist propaganda3
The translation of moral panic into misogynist e-bile: the case of Turkish singer Gülşen3
Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt3
When ‘atypical’ is the new typical: a critical analysis of the representation of virginity among neurodivergent men characters in TV series3
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain3
Circulating desire: queer logistical aesthetics3
A male feminist walks into a bar: male feminist capital and the “bloke turn” in feminism3
Editors’ introduction: the twentieth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies3
For Better or Worse: A Gendered Outlook of the films The Leisure Seeker and Alaska3
Perfect: feeling judged on social media, a roundtable discussion3
Hashtag feminism: identity politics and the politicization of social change in Iran3
Being independent women in blogs: young Chinese women bloggers’ construction of independent persona and strategic subjectivity on Xiaohongshu3
Social media as a counter-public sphere? Chinese feminist activism empowered by hashtags3
Being watched and feeling judged on social media3
“An issue of no importance?” Media representation of discourses on sexual identities in Kenya3
Barbie as eve: feminist theology and Greta Gerwig3
Analyzing cultural politics through the “dancing body”: a study of Assamese item songs in India3
Daughters of jianghu : female heroism in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin and Ash Is Purest White3
Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel3
Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze3
Margarita, the Big Bad Wolf, and the film censor: film, feminism, and dictatorial repression in Spain3
“Those girls are vicious little monsters”: reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets3
Reality television dating with participants aged 65+: constructing empowered older women and “less than” older men in Hotel Romance3
Migrant mothers and neoliberal feminism: diasporic audience research on the Korean reality show strangers3
Complacency and misogyny, or positive changes that add up to a movement? How the UK screen industries are addressing sexual harassment in the workplace3
Exposing the “lie”: uncovering abuse and misogyny in Big Little Lies3
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter: deconstructing affect and emotion in the #MeToo movement3
Surveillance media technology and news coverage of stranger violence against women in Australia3
Window shopping in barbie land: the kinetic and aesthetic pleasures of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)3
Belonging, responsibility and reflexivity: mediated intimacy among Finnish nonbinary and trans social media users3
“Joss is (no longer?) Boss”: three layers of cancelling in the joss whedon fan community3
Watch out for the big girls: Black plus-sized content creators creating space and amplifying visibility in digital spaces3
Beauty police: the construction and implementation of beauty standards in Romanian news TV3
The gender of the meme: women and protest media in populist Hungary3
Banning “braingasm”: an investigation of misogynistic politics in 8Chan’s, U.S. platforms’ and CCP’s regulation of ASMR3
Reality television and the promotion of problematic behavior among cast members: a case study content analysis through the lens of feminist and media framing theories3
Tactics of diversity? Exploring self-care dilemmas among feminist activists on Instagram3
Un(veil)ing context collapse: #hijab3
The temptation of performing cuteness: Shirley Temple’s birthday parties during the Great Depression3
Gendered keywords as entry points: the construction and evolution of nüpin and nüxing-xiang in Chinese Internet literature3
“Normal confident guys”: Chinese female stand-up comedians performing, triggering, and commercializing the “female complaint”3
From a slap to a punch: preparing Hermione Granger for postfeminist Hollywood3
Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts3
COVID-19 pandemic and women transitioning from incarceration: a study of online health information seeking among underserved and marginalized women3
When the hunter plays the hunted: heterosexual Chinese women’s negotiations with hegemonic sexual scripts on dating apps3
“‘I have to want you to act this way’”: a political reading of sexual violence, Men’s Rights Activism, and the Pick-up Artist2
Bedroom eyes: women dressing and redressing in The Best Years of Our Lives2
From secularism to freedom: The hijab debate in the 2024 Olympics and its reflections in Türkiye2
Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship2
Reading Chizuko Ueno in China: inter-Asian translation ethics and the ambivalence of transnational feminisms2
Contemporary Queer Chinese Art2
“Surface and depth: ambivalence as postfeminist ideal in Barbie2
Institutionalized ‘bad girls’: adolescent female folk devils in Canadian newspapers between 1991 and 20122
Women, anger and emotion management in Love Island2
History or vanity? The first “female” referees in the history of the FIFA World Cup and its reflections on Twitter2
Co-opetition in the censored internet: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of queer-feminist counterdiscourse in the Chinese context2
Of Paano-sexuals and pansexuals: media representation of queer Ghanaians and queer self-representation through alternative media2
Researching non-binary identities across the media ecosystem2
Complicating images of the modern Chinese woman, from only child to ‘leftover woman’2
Talked about, not talked to: Romani women’s representation in media and politics2
The (unlocated) in-game gender performativity in contemporary China: exploring gender swapping practices in the online game sphere2
Forging a more masculine self online: demonstrating skill and sovereignty in the playing of first-person shooter games2
Anxiety in defining the older woman in contemporary British television drama: Gold Digger (BBC one, 2019—) and Flesh and Blood (ITV, 2020—2
Reading is fun-da- mental : queering queer “safe” spaces within drag culture2
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime2
Affordances and platformed visual misogyny: a call for feminist approaches in visual methods2
Decolonial interventions and rethinking normativity: Towards alternative paradigms of feminist knowledge and power2
Gender as a central site of inquiry within mis- and disinformation studies2
Gendered cooking and Indian marriages: reading Tarla from a feminist viewpoint2
Fantasies of white feminism: the human as “Other” in Captain Marvel2
Intersectionality and care ethics in researching the far right2
The LARME incident: on femme idols speaking out in contemporary Japan2
Postfeminist heroes and heroines in contemporary Chinese advertising2
Media and violence against women in the Basque Country: a self-regulation case study2
Performing Representational Labor: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Legibility in Global Latinx Media Cultures2
“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 19902
Cyberbullying and feminism in Pakistan: the stories of feminist activists in Lahore2
Post-feminism and the “mind”: the mental makeover paradigm2
An analysis of Josh condom commercials: perspectives on female sexuality in Pakistani culture2
The power of vulnerability: women stand-up comedians’ triumph through self-deprecation2
Patriarchy in disguise: reproducing male hegemony through the Ninja TV competition2
Situating senior women in film through positive reflections and sensuous touch: subverting Nichols’ The Graduate in Vernoux’s Bright Days Ahead2
Reporting rape: reading Bhakshak as a feminist critique of Indian journalism2
Thai-fusion popular feminism: the beginning of #DontTellMeHowToDress on Instagram2
An old mind in a young body: womanhood between oppression and expression in Miss Granny2
Hiding women healthcare workers in the media spotlight: how the Chinese state media represented women HCWs in response to the Covid-19-engendered crises2
Comedy’s double killjoy: workers’ DIY strategies to address harassment and precarity in the comedy industry2
“It was all about being ‘young,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘funny’”: how women journalists assess harassment and gender inequalities in Brazilian newsrooms2
Large-scale computational content analysis on magazines targeting men and women: the case of Argentina 2008-20182
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