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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sentimental education across the borders: Hindi soap opera and translation cultures on the Russophone Web76
“Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews38
‘Alienated young man’ with plans for ‘murderous vengeance’? Examining portrayals of misogynistic incel violence in the US news media38
The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist “wellness” culture34
“How marketing consultants commodify social movements: Estelle Ellis, audience construction, and the women’s media market, 1945-1973”31
Factors influencing occupational gender segregation of videojournalists in Taiwanese TV news channels28
Affective reading practices in Chinese women-oriented online fiction: The politics of identification26
Framing feminist protest: a content analysis of the glitter revolution26
Making girls at home in games: Nancy Drew computer games and the racial politics of girls’ game spaces25
New outlets of digital feminist activism in China: the #SeeFemaleWorkers campaign23
This Barbie has melancholy feminism: framing empowerment and grievable lives22
Gender “frames” in media: select examples of popular feminism and popular misogyny from India22
Positioning gender in time-travel: time-travel TV dramas as dialogic resources for constructing and re-imagining identity among Mainland Chinese postgraduates in Hong Kong21
Fabricating babies: reproduction as production in Storks and The Boss Baby21
The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo: a case study of Southern Weekly20
Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer & Feminism in Praxis19
#FrauenSagenNein - bridging the divide: analyzing the affective network of gender-critical alliances19
Women’s affective labor in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s18
Emergent distribution strategies and feminist media practices: the case of Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)17
“Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media: humorous motherhood counter-discourse17
Home is where the hate is: gender, race, class and the domestic abuse plotline in fiction and on screen17
Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms17
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show16
Tennis representations in the 20th-century Brazilian press: women’s bodies in focus16
“The Story of You and Me”: strategic ambiguity in the paratextual reception of Kim Ji-Young, Born 198216
Epistemologies of ignorance in constructions of fairness and biology: the online swimming community responds to Lia Thomas’ inclusion in women’s swimming events16
The blame game: how video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse15
Barbie in China: feminist ideals or consumerist realities on RedNote?14
Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies: an exploratory analysis14
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence14
Gender-equal sexism: a covert and subtle form of gender discrimination14
WhatsApp and participation in sexual and reproductive health for women with disabilities in Nairobi14
“What a nasty girl!” incivility and gendered symbolic violence in news discussions14
Correction13
“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities13
Gold diggers in the digital age: Unraveling the “Lao Nü” stereotype in contemporary Chinese social media13
Transnational Iranian poetics of resistance: the Green Movement and Iranian women’s agency in Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014)12
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media12
Perils of the princess 2.0: an (auto)ethnographic study of girls playing Super Mario Bros. 211
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies: Zimbabwe’s Bustop TV11
Sex Work in Popular Culture11
Diya : coerced abortion and reproductive autonomy in India11
Have a cup of coffee: the techno-spatial tactics of female urbanites and the production of “mobile publicness” in digital urban China11
Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence10
Comparing nüquanzhuyi and nüxingzhuyi : mapping digital feminist discourse in China through corpus analysi10
Has feminism “gone too far?” A mixed-methods exploration of perceptions of digital feminist activism10
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder10
The affective circulation of the feminist movement via the hashtag #seAcabó and its portrayal in the traditional digital media10
“Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: imaginaries of a post-violent AI world10
“The victim lived an intense life”: media (mis)representations of femicide crimes in the Republic of Cyprus10
Suffering as the counter-discourse: the construction of an affective community through feminist podcasts in China9
African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT)9
The red lipstick movement: exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal9
Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary9
Nigerian queer concealment and feminist resistance: Unpacking ‘fraudulent’ mixed-orientation marriages discourses in digital feminism8
Conceptualizing academic sustainability8
Correction8
Sticking around: hobbyhorsing, digital transgression, and gender-based violence in TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube commentary8
The “emotional contract”: on obligation and guilt in women influencers’ work with brands8
Until death do us part: gendered media coverage of the deaths of Israeli male and female public figures8
From “borking” to getting “kavanaughed”: language, reputation, and the importance of a (male) name8
Women on top? Challenging the “mancession” narrative in the 2010s chick flick8
Feeling the future: Wonder Woman discourse and the demands of media response8
Neoliberal feminism and intergenerational relations at work: an analysis of media representations of feminist mentorship in popular culture8
Over-excitement, shapeless self and paradoxical happiness in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015–2019)7
“Locked, loaded, and online”: gendered critiques of Israeli security through the lens of female gun owners7
“By women for women” communicating gender discourse in r/FemaleDatingStrategy7
From margins to mainstream: a critical network analysis of the #MosqueMeToo hashtag7
Educate yourself! Exploring feminist politics and self-development in Danish online fat activism7
Persistent racialized commodification amidst technological innovation: exceptionalist Filipina bride representations from analog to digital7
Framing women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Consumer responses to femvertising: evidence from a cross-cultural study7
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre:The Flowers of War7
Protection or commodification of women? Discursive construction of bridewealth on Chinese social media7
Reading the queer in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”6
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China6
“If Something Ever Happened, I’d Have No One to Tell:” how online sexism perpetuates young women’s silence6
Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: the case of Malaysian former-Muslim women6
“Fair-skinned, young and slim” or “Kardashian-style”: UK-based female Chinese international students’ self-presentation on mobile dating applications6
#RepresentationMatters on TV: a critical textual analysis of intersectional representation at work on NBC’s Superstore6
Provocative eroticism: anger in fourth-wave feminist Danish pop culture6
“She’s everything”: feminism and the Barbie movie6
“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times6
“My feminism is better than yours!” the lack of intersectionality in feminist digital discourses in Ghana6
Gendered framing and victim-blaming in fictional sexual assault survivor portrayals6
How horror films constructs Blackness: examples of White supremacist media’s enforcement of necropolitics in genre film6
Fighting in the shadow of heteropatriarchy: feminists versus gay men’s discursive battle over surrogacy in China6
Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation6
Distinct information ecologies? Gender knowledge production in German digital legacy and counterpublic media6
Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture5
Alternative fairy-tale endings and the main character syndrome: “happily ever after” for the woke generation5
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature5
Co-categorizing Chinese “medicine girls”: a multimodal membership categorization analysis of trans women’s representations in a news video5
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China5
“Situating and sustaining feminist action: lessons from digital games inclusivity organizing”5
The womb as battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese social media5
Working the case: a feminist and queer investigation of the Asian/American female detective in Killing Eve5
Art-based research, decoloniality & gender-based violence: Voices of women students from India5
The world is collapsing, but we are in love: Xianxia romance as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China5
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring5
Negotiating attractiveness: Korean American perceptions of body image and identity in light of the Korean Wave5
Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping5
Being a positive influence(r): exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram5
From romancing women to teaching men: an analysis of vulnerability and entrepreneurial masculinity on Japanese YouTube in The Roland Show5
Dramatising a contemporary childhood sexual abuse narrative: reinforcing a hierarchy of victims5
Mädchen in uniform5
Calling out or calling in? Feminist CCIs negotiate BLM, cancel culture, and activist selves online5
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media5
”You do it for the good times”: rival feminist readings of torture and kink in Grand Theft Auto V5
Gender, power and magic in the film of Mulan (2020): a cross-cultural analysis of the Western feminist discourse and the Daoist cultural discourse5
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’5
A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality5
Data activism and social media in the case of racialized and gendered deaths and disappearances5
The rise of nande : a case study of digital feminism in China5
Spain’s ‘First Feminist Film’: Feminism and Francoism,Margarita and the Wolf(Cecilia Bartolomé 1969)5
What does the tradwife movement have to do with superheroes? A review of the depiction of the tradwife movement in Gen V5
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)5
Veteran journalists and “vieilles filles”: how gender, age and journalism congregate in The French Dispatch5
Global media ethics: a feminist intervention4
Comedy as method: gender discourse production in Chinese women’s stand-up comedy interpretive communities4
Circulating desire: queer logistical aesthetics4
Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts4
Sacred children, self-sacrificing mothers: Instagram’s idealized parenting culture4
Reconstructing professional identity: Chinese female interpreters in traditional and self-media4
Perfect: feeling judged on social media, a roundtable discussion4
When the hunter plays the hunted: heterosexual Chinese women’s negotiations with hegemonic sexual scripts on dating apps4
#metoo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China4
Women’s safety work on dating apps and rape culture4
Mickey’s main squeeze: the gendered portrayal of Minnie Mouse in the early era (1928 – 1935) and modern era (2013 – 2019)4
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland4
The platformization of socially constructed gender realities: the ‘Fat Cat incident’ (2024)4
Window shopping in barbie land: the kinetic and aesthetic pleasures of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)4
Being independent women in blogs: young Chinese women bloggers’ construction of independent persona and strategic subjectivity on Xiaohongshu4
“Joss is (no longer?) Boss”: three layers of cancelling in the Joss Whedon fan community4
Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel4
Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other4
Banning “braingasm”: an investigation of misogynistic politics in 8Chan’s, U.S. platforms’ and CCP’s regulation of ASMR4
Rage as a strategy of weak resistance and creative power in women’s protests and digital activism in postsocialist Poland4
“The women are every bit as good as the men”: a postfeminist critique of LPGA players’ quest for equity in golf4
HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports4
Examining gender representations in the pilot episode of the anime Attack on Titan4
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok4
Structural-violence framing, de-gendering discourse, and muted misogyny: the official media’s representation of gender-based violence in contemporary china4
Watching National Treasure , creating danmei tongren : stories of power and the power of stories4
Gendered keywords as entry points: the construction and evolution of nüpin and nüxing-xiang in Chinese Internet literature4
The translation of moral panic into misogynist e-bile: the case of Turkish singer Gülşen4
Fascism, nature and communication: a discursive-affective analysis of cuteness in ecofascist propaganda4
Narratives of relationality and time in fertility preservation vlogs4
You’re doing it wrong: the governance of motherhood through mommy blogs4
Complacency and misogyny, or positive changes that add up to a movement? How the UK screen industries are addressing sexual harassment in the workplace4
“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
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism4
Archiving digital activism against sexual violence: the challenges for ethical witnessing in research practice4
When feminists are misidentified as traitors: nationalism, disinformation, and anti-feminism in Chinese cyberspace4
Strategic mouthing of words: the Chinese bromance drama Word of Honor , censorship and gender stereotypes3
“Those girls are vicious little monsters”: reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets3
Listening to women’s personal stories about suicide: an online thematic analysis of the discourse on UK parenting forum Mumsnet3
A feminist critical discourse analysis of Nepali feminist hashtag movements on social media3
Feminism and Facebook : the possibility of political subjectivation experiences3
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
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime3
The power of vulnerability: women stand-up comedians’ triumph through self-deprecation3
Contemporary Queer Chinese Art3
Post-feminism and the “mind”: the mental makeover paradigm3
Decolonial interventions and rethinking normativity: Towards alternative paradigms of feminist knowledge and power3
Social media as a counter-public sphere? Chinese feminist activism empowered by hashtags3
“An issue of no importance?” Media representation of discourses on sexual identities in Kenya3
Hashtag feminism: identity politics and the politicization of social change in Iran3
Gendered representation of human trafficking and transforming patriarchal configurations in China: a mixed-methods analysis of People’s Daily , 2011–20243
Not alone: a queer reading of Enola Holmes3
Beauty police: the construction and implementation of beauty standards in Romanian news TV3
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: discursive contradictions in the feminist critiques of pro-feminist men3
The temptation of performing cuteness: Shirley Temple’s birthday parties during the Great Depression3
Inability to love: change of intimate structure in the documentary Hard love3
A male feminist walks into a bar: male feminist capital and the “bloke turn” in feminism3
Anxiety in defining the older woman in contemporary British television drama: Gold Digger (BBC one, 2019—) and Flesh and Blood (ITV, 2020—3
When ‘atypical’ is the new typical: a critical analysis of the representation of virginity among neurodivergent men characters in TV series3
Margarita, the Big Bad Wolf, and the film censor: film, feminism, and dictatorial repression in Spain3
Correction3
Reality television dating with participants aged 65+: constructing empowered older women and “less than” older men in Hotel Romance3
From a slap to a punch: preparing Hermione Granger for postfeminist Hollywood3
Migrant mothers and neoliberal feminism: diasporic audience research on the Korean reality show strangers3
Identifying and assessing gender bias in radio journalism in conflict-affected contexts: evidence from Burkina Faso3
The rise of trans-exclusionary feminism in South Korea: popular feminism and the mediation of women’s bodies3
The (unlocated) in-game gender performativity in contemporary China: exploring gender swapping practices in the online game sphere3
Belonging, responsibility and reflexivity: mediated intimacy among Finnish nonbinary and trans social media users3
The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals3
Un(veil)ing context collapse: #hijab3
“Manufacturing princesses”: the illusion of consumerism and the masquerade of pseudo-feminism in light photography3
“Normal confident guys”: Chinese female stand-up comedians performing, triggering, and commercializing the “female complaint”3
“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 19903
Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt3
Bedroom eyes: women dressing and redressing in The Best Years of Our Lives3
COVID-19 pandemic and women transitioning from incarceration: a study of online health information seeking among underserved and marginalized women3
Privileged underdogs: the heterotopias and anti-political correctness of upper-class men in a Swedish digital space3
Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship3
Analyzing cultural politics through the “dancing body”: a study of Assamese item songs in India3
Surveillance media technology and news coverage of stranger violence against women in Australia3
The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS3
“I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”: a narrative analysis of Chrissy Teigen’s social media describing her miscarriage3
Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south3
Barbie as eve: feminist theology and Greta Gerwig3
An analysis of Josh condom commercials: perspectives on female sexuality in Pakistani culture2
Beauty, baby and backlash? Anti-feminist influencers on TikTok2
Gendered cooking and Indian marriages: reading Tarla from a feminist viewpoint2
Fantasies of white feminism: the human as “Other” in Captain Marvel2
How Leikeli47 is glitching heteronormativity across the music industry2
Private desires, public narratives: the intersection of sexuality and cultural citizenship in Danish state-supported cinema2
Blue light district: a digital ethnography of an online forum for male sex tourists2
Recounting feminicide: the relational accountability of citizen data practices2
Gendered representations in Lebanese advertisements: flawless white femininity, heteronormative patriarchal masculinity, and the erasure of local diversity2
From collective struggle to individual hustle: gig work and neoliberal feminism in Working Mother magazine2
“Do I really look like that?”: unpacking discourses of control and discursive and visual dissonances in young women’s selfie-practices2
Intersectionality and care ethics in researching the far right2
Barbie, motherhood and invisibilisation of labour2
State-socialist heteromasculinity on the eve of neoliberalism: sexual problems in the first Polish lifestyle magazine for men2
What’s perfect, and what’s good?2
Patriarchy in disguise: reproducing male hegemony through the Ninja TV competition2
She’s ‘sexssertive’ and she knows it!: a postfeminist reading of African femininities in Afrobeats music videos2
“Surface and depth: ambivalence as postfeminist ideal in Barbie2
Postfeminist heroes and heroines in contemporary Chinese advertising2
Reporting rape: reading Bhakshak as a feminist critique of Indian journalism2
Framing gender equality and norm shifting: a case study of the Pillars Campaign (Nha Nhieu Cot) on Vietnamese social media2
Queer Bots of their own?: The Digital Toilet Girls, Boys’ Love vernacular, and online censorship in China2
“The butterfly effect”: sexual assault and the aftermath on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why2
For queer lovers and friends: an exploration of queer connection by design in the Lex mobile app2
Thai-fusion popular feminism: the beginning of #DontTellMeHowToDress on Instagram2
“Kneel”: hot priests and confessional affect in Fleabag2
Trends untold: a mixed methods analysis of feminist politics and discourses of empathy in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings2
“You’re like my twin soul”: postfeminist neoliberalism in Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian2
A laying on of hands: reading afrodiasporic spirituality, matrilineage & collectivism in lemonade2
#girls help girls#: feminist discussions and affective heterotopia in patriarchal China2
Polarized views over feminism: gendered reception of Barbie among Chinese audiences on social media2
Institutionalized ‘bad girls’: adolescent female folk devils in Canadian newspapers between 1991 and 20122
The twisted patriarchal fandom governance in China: changing media representations of fanquan nvhai (“fangirls”)2
From secularism to freedom: The hijab debate in the 2024 Olympics and its reflections in Türkiye2
“It was all about being ‘young,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘funny’”: how women journalists assess harassment and gender inequalities in Brazilian newsrooms2
Boys love media in Thailand: celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture2
Fashioning Lives & Information Activism: reading queer life, restor(y)ing kinship2
“She did see warning signs but chose to ignore them”: perpetrator justification and victim-blaming narratives in true crime podcasts about intimate partner violence2
Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: postnatal depression narratives, treatment and reception on BBC radio, 1946–19852
Elizabeth Holmes: Silicon Valley, unicorns, and the limits of visibility2
Gender as a central site of inquiry within mis- and disinformation studies2
Co-opetition in the censored internet: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of queer-feminist counterdiscourse in the Chinese context2
“Hegemonic” but “obedient” AI boyfriend: the hybrid masculinity of the AI boyfriend and female domination in the China-based FAII2
Mapping an emerging hashtag ecosystem: connective action and interpretive frames in the Swedish #MeToo movement2
Connecting infertility beliefs with viewership of teen pregnancy media: the role of morality in understandings of fertility2
Why we need intersectionality in Ghanaian feminist politics and discourses2
Feminist agency and the Nigerian press framing of women’s participation in the #EndSARS protest2
Aging, femininity and class: reimagining the ‘halmeoni’ in contemporary South Korean cinema2
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