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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sentimental education across the borders: Hindi soap opera and translation cultures on the Russophone Web62
“Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews45
Correction37
New outlets of digital feminist activism in China: the #SeeFemaleWorkers campaign30
Framing feminist protest: a content analysis of the glitter revolution29
‘Alienated young man’ with plans for ‘murderous vengeance’? Examining portrayals of misogynistic incel violence in the US news media28
The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist “wellness” culture23
Gender “frames” in media: select examples of popular feminism and popular misogyny from India22
Contentious practices of postfeminist audiencing: online discourse about cinematic feminisms in Birds of Prey22
Factors influencing occupational gender segregation of videojournalists in Taiwanese TV news channels21
“How marketing consultants commodify social movements: Estelle Ellis, audience construction, and the women’s media market, 1945-1973”18
“Successful” identity transformation: the representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha17
Saviors, nurturers, or magically insane: a braided reading of white women characters in three ecological narratives17
Microcelebrity around the globe: approaches to cultures of internet fame17
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”15
#FrauenSagenNein - bridging the divide: analyzing the affective network of gender-critical alliances15
The exploitation of Sue Lyon: Lolita (1962), archival research, and questions for film history15
Letters to the (special) editors of Feminist Media Studies15
Internet memes and a female “Arab Spring”: mobilising online for the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Hungary in 2012-1314
Authorship and female stardom in Spanish cinema under Franco: Sara Montiel and Marujita Díaz14
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
Fabricating babies: reproduction as production in Storks and The Boss Baby13
Adolescent gender differences in internet safety education13
“The Story of You and Me”: Strategic Ambiguity in the Paratextual Reception of Kim Ji-Young, Born 198212
This Barbie has melancholy feminism: framing empowerment and grievable lives12
Screening women’s trauma: constructing trauma for television in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale12
The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo: a case study of Southern Weekly12
Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer & Feminism in Praxis12
“My dear unwanted”: media discourse on sex-selective abortion in Montenegro12
Women’s affective labor in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s12
Emergent distribution strategies and feminist media practices: the case of Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)11
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show11
Home is where the hate is: gender, race, class and the domestic abuse plotline in fiction and on screen11
Tennis representations in the 20th-century Brazilian press: women’s bodies in focus11
Making Australian institutions in newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement: exceptionalism, co-production and agency11
Epistemologies of ignorance in constructions of fairness and biology: the online swimming community responds to Lia Thomas’ inclusion in women’s swimming events10
Paula Green’s feminist activism: changing America through advertising10
Gender-equal sexism: a covert and subtle form of gender discrimination10
Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies: an exploratory analysis10
Feminist fire: embodiment and affect in managing conflict in digital feminist spaces10
“What a nasty girl!” incivility and gendered symbolic violence in news discussions10
WhatsApp and participation in sexual and reproductive health for women with disabilities in Nairobi10
The blame game: how video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse10
“Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media: humorous motherhood counter-discourse10
“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities10
“My haters and I ”: personal and political responses to hate speech against female journalists in Austria9
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence9
The affective circulation of the feminist movement via the hashtag #seAcabó and its portrayal in the traditional digital media9
Correction9
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media9
Transnational Iranian poetics of resistance: the Green Movement and Iranian women’s agency in Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014)9
Gold diggers in the digital age: Unraveling the “Lao Nü” stereotype in contemporary Chinese social media9
Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms9
Beyond feminist heroines: framing the discourses on Kurdish women fighters in three types of Western media9
Has feminism “gone too far?” A mixed-methods exploration of perceptions of digital feminist activism8
Diya : coerced abortion and reproductive autonomy in India8
The ‘emotional contract’: on obligation and guilt in women influencers’ work with brands8
“Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: imaginaries of a post-violent AI world8
“The victim lived an intense life”: media (mis)representations of femicide crimes in the Republic of Cyprus8
Men’s comments on elite women athletes: cultural narratives around gender and sport on Instagram8
“Having it both ways”: containing the champions of feminism in female-led origin and solo superhero films8
Women on top? Challenging the “mancession” narrative in the 2010s chick flick8
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies: Zimbabwe’s Bustop TV8
African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT)8
“Women need not apply”: Sylvia Earle, binary oscillations, and the ecofeminist rhetoric of Mission Blue7
Suffering as the counter-discourse: the construction of an affective community through feminist podcasts in China7
Perils of the princess 2.0: an (auto)ethnographic study of girls playing Super Mario Bros. 27
“Oh for the days when men were men”: constructing, defending and justifying masculinity in newspaper comment forums – a critique7
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder7
Sex Work in Popular Culture6
From margins to mainstream: a critical network analysis of the #MosqueMeToo hashtag6
Sticking around: hobbyhorsing, digital transgression, and gender-based violence in TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube commentary6
“By women for women” communicating gender discourse in r/FemaleDatingStrategy6
“Can I become a true feminist?”: An interpretive analysis on the mirroring experience of young Korean women6
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre:The Flowers of War6
Neoliberal feminism and intergenerational relations at work: an analysis of media representations of feminist mentorship in popular culture6
Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence6
The red lipstick movement: exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal6
Feeling the future: Wonder Woman discourse and the demands of media response6
Framing women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Distinct information ecologies? Gender knowledge production in German digital legacy and counterpublic media6
Sovereign attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and affective politics in Pakistan6
16 feminist media studies scholars, 7 questions about working in the university (and beyond)6
Educate yourself! Exploring feminist politics and self-development in Danish online fat activism6
Until death do us part: gendered media coverage of the deaths of Israeli male and female public figures6
Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary6
Conceptualizing academic sustainability6
From “borking” to getting “kavanaughed”: language, reputation, and the importance of a (male) name6
How horror films constructs Blackness: examples of White supremacist media’s enforcement of necropolitics in genre film6
Persistent racialized commodification amidst technological innovation: exceptionalist Filipina bride representations from analog to digital6
Protection or commodification of women? Discursive construction of bridewealth on Chinese social media6
Correction6
#RepresentationMatters on TV: a critical textual analysis of intersectional representation at work on NBC’s Superstore5
“She’s everything”: feminism and the Barbie movie5
“If Something Ever Happened, I’d Have No One to Tell:” how online sexism perpetuates young women’s silence5
Honoured through blood5
”You do it for the good times”: rival feminist readings of torture and kink in Grand Theft Auto V5
Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era5
Bargaining with patriarchy or converting men into pro-feminists: social-mediated frame alignment in feminist connective activism5
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China5
“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times5
“Fair-skinned, young and slim” or “Kardashian-style”: UK-based female Chinese international students’ self-presentation on mobile dating applications5
Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation5
Veteran journalists and ‘Vieilles Filles’: how gender, age and journalism congregate in The French Dispatch5
The media capabilities of Druze women in Israel5
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)5
Fighting in the shadow of heteropatriarchy: feminists versus gay men’s discursive battle over surrogacy in China5
Reading the queer in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”5
The London BFI Flare LGBTQ+ film festival: “A celebration of difference and diversity” or normative hegemony?5
Gendered framing and victim-blaming in fictional sexual assault survivor portrayals5
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
The world is collapsing, but we are in love: Xianxia romance as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China5
“My feminism is better than yours!” the lack of intersectionality in feminist digital discourses in Ghana5
Provocative eroticism: anger in fourth-wave feminist Danish pop culture5
Negotiating attractiveness: Korean American perceptions of body image and identity in light of the Korean Wave4
Happy and entrepreneurial within the “here and now”: the constitution of the neoliberal female ageing subject4
The womb as battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese social media4
Locating disability within online body positivity discourses: an analysis of #DisabledAndCute4
“Situating and sustaining feminist action: lessons from digital games inclusivity organizing”4
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature4
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China4
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”: the dangai industry, queer masculinity and the “opacity” of the state4
“I think the men are behind it”: reproductive labour and the horror of second wave feminism4
Single parenthood, the non-residential parent and co-parenting in Swedish daily news4
Blaming and shaming in the shadow structure: individual resistance towards gender equality work as expressions of social conflict4
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media4
Art-based research, decoloniality & gender-based violence: Voices of women students from India4
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’4
HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports4
Co-categorizing Chinese “medicine girls”: a multimodal membership categorization analysis of trans women’s representations in a news video4
Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film4
A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality4
Spain’s ‘First Feminist Film’: Feminism and Francoism,Margarita and the Wolf(Cecilia Bartolomé 1969)4
Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture4
“Wifeys, bitches, and sluts”: the gender burden and other obstacles behind the creation of television’s antiheroines4
The rise of nande : a case study of digital feminism in China4
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring4
Dramatising a contemporary childhood sexual abuse narrative: reinforcing a hierarchy of victims4
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland4
Octopuses, remoras, and surfers: speculative stories from the offline space of digital circulation in Cuba4
Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping4
When feminists are misidentified as traitors: nationalism, disinformation, and anti-feminism in Chinese cyberspace4
Data activism and social media in the case of racialized and gendered deaths and disappearances4
Being a positive influence(r): exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram4
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok4
Gendered keywords as entry points: the construction and evolution of nüpin and nüxing-xiang in Chinese Internet literature3
Mickey’s main squeeze: the gendered portrayal of Minnie Mouse in the early era (1928 – 1935) and modern era (2013 – 2019)3
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter: deconstructing affect and emotion in the #MeToo movement3
Watching National Treasure , creating danmei tongren : stories of power and the power of stories3
When the hunter plays the hunted: heterosexual Chinese women’s negotiations with hegemonic sexual scripts on dating apps3
Gendered power relations in the digital age: an analysis of Japanese women’s media choice and use within a global context3
The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS3
Barbie as eve: feminist theology and Greta Gerwig3
Fear, freaks, and fat phobia: an examination of howMy 600 Lbs Lifedisplays “fat” Black women3
Window shopping in barbie land: the kinetic and aesthetic pleasures of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)3
Complacency and misogyny, or positive changes that add up to a movement? How the UK screen industries are addressing sexual harassment in the workplace3
“I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”: a narrative analysis of Chrissy Teigen’s social media describing her miscarriage3
Being independent women in blogs: young Chinese women bloggers’ construction of independent persona and strategic subjectivity on Xiaohongshu3
Beauty police: the construction and implementation of beauty standards in Romanian news TV3
RevisitingEl Viento del Ayahuasca(1983): gender representation in a pioneer female director’s film about the Amazon3
Margarita, the Big Bad Wolf, and the film censor: film, feminism, and dictatorial repression in Spain3
Banning “braingasm”: an investigation of misogynistic politics in 8Chan’s, U.S. platforms’ and CCP’s regulation of ASMR3
Agents of Chaos: The Monstrous Feminine in Killing Eve3
Being watched and feeling judged on social media3
Structural-violence framing, de-gendering discourse, and muted misogyny: the official media’s representation of gender-based violence in contemporary china3
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
Facing exclusion in neoliberal times: technologies of the self of older women in the series Grace and Frankie3
You’re doing it wrong: the governance of motherhood through mommy blogs3
Queering digital media spatiality: a phenomenology of bodies being stopped3
Belonging, responsibility and reflexivity: mediated intimacy among Finnish nonbinary and trans social media users3
Watch out for the big girls: Black plus-sized content creators creating space and amplifying visibility in digital spaces3
Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other3
The temptation of performing cuteness: Shirley Temple’s birthday parties during the Great Depression3
Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts3
Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel3
Gender imbalance in MMORPG: the case of World of Warcraft in Brazil3
Editors’ introduction: the twentieth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies3
Strategic femininity on Facebook: women’s experiences negotiating gendered discourses on social media3
“Joss is (no longer?) Boss”: three layers of cancelling in the joss whedon fan community3
#metoo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China3
Examining gender representations in the pilot episode of the anime Attack on Titan3
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism3
Fascism, nature and communication: a discursive-affective analysis of cuteness in ecofascist propaganda3
“The women are every bit as good as the men”: a postfeminist critique of LPGA players’ quest for equity in golf3
“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)3
Analyzing cultural politics through the “dancing body”: a study of Assamese item songs in India3
The translation of moral panic into misogynist e-bile: the case of Turkish singer Gülşen3
“An issue of no importance?” Media representation of discourses on sexual identities in Kenya3
A feminist critical discourse analysis of Nepali feminist hashtag movements on social media3
“Those girls are vicious little monsters”: reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets3
Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze3
Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt3
Circulating desire: queer logistical aesthetics3
Perfect: feeling judged on social media, a roundtable discussion3
Un(veil)ing context collapse: #hijab3
Tactics of diversity? Exploring self-care dilemmas among feminist activists on Instagram3
The gender of the meme: women and protest media in populist Hungary3
Narratives of relationality and time in fertility preservation vlogs3
Women’s safety work on dating apps and rape culture3
The power of vulnerability: women stand-up comedians’ triumph through self-deprecation2
Gender status inertia in biographical films: an overview of the motion picture industry from 1900 to 20172
Migrant mothers and neoliberal feminism: diasporic audience research on the Korean reality show strangers2
Patriarchy in disguise: reproducing male hegemony through the Ninja TV competition2
Exposing the “lie”: uncovering abuse and misogyny in Big Little Lies2
Boys love media in Thailand: celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture2
Affordances and platformed visual misogyny: a call for feminist approaches in visual methods2
For Better or Worse: A Gendered Outlook of the films The Leisure Seeker and Alaska2
An analysis of Josh condom commercials: perspectives on female sexuality in Pakistani culture2
Mapping the manosphere. Categorization of reactionary masculinity discourses in digital environment2
Reporting rape: reading Bhakshak as a feminist critique of Indian journalism2
“Surface and depth: ambivalence as postfeminist ideal in Barbie2
Institutionalized ‘bad girls’: adolescent female folk devils in Canadian newspapers between 1991 and 20122
The relationship between instagram use and body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and internalization of beauty ideals: a correlational study of Iranian women2
Co-opetition in the censored internet: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of queer-feminist counterdiscourse in the Chinese context2
Media and violence against women in the Basque Country: a self-regulation case study2
Of Paano-sexuals and pansexuals: media representation of queer Ghanaians and queer self-representation through alternative media2
Daughters of jianghu : female heroism in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin and Ash Is Purest White2
Complicating images of the modern Chinese woman, from only child to ‘leftover woman’2
From a slap to a punch: preparing Hermione Granger for postfeminist Hollywood2
Recounting feminicide: the relational accountability of citizen data practices2
History or vanity? The first “female” referees in the history of the FIFA World Cup and its reflections on Twitter2
COVID-19 pandemic and women transitioning from incarceration: a study of online health information seeking among underserved and marginalized women2
Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: postnatal depression narratives, treatment and reception on BBC radio, 1946–19852
When ‘atypical’ is the new typical: a critical analysis of the representation of virginity among neurodivergent men characters in TV series2
Gender as a central site of inquiry within mis- and disinformation studies2
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime2
“The butterfly effect”: sexual assault and the aftermath on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why2
Gendered cooking and Indian marriages: reading Tarla from a feminist viewpoint2
Situating senior women in film through positive reflections and sensuous touch: subverting Nichols’ The Graduate in Vernoux’s Bright Days Ahead2
Hiding women healthcare workers in the media spotlight: how the Chinese state media represented women HCWs in response to the Covid-19-engendered crises2
Breathing spaces? The politics of embodiment, affect, and genre in Mare of Easttown and Happy Valley2
“Normal confident guys”: Chinese female stand-up comedians performing, triggering, and commercializing the “female complaint”2
Researching non-binary identities across the media ecosystem2
Privileged underdogs: the heterotopias and anti-political correctness of upper-class men in a Swedish digital space2
Reading is fun-da- mental : queering queer “safe” spaces within drag culture2
A male feminist walks into a bar: male feminist capital and the “bloke turn” in feminism2
How Leikeli47 is glitching heteronormativity across the music industry2
Cyberbullying and feminism in Pakistan: the stories of feminist activists in Lahore2
Contemporary queer Chinese art Contemporary Queer Chinese Art , edited by Hongwei Bao, Diyi Mergenthaler, and Jamie J. Zhao, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 248 pp., 2
From secularism to freedom: The hijab debate in the 2024 Olympics and its reflections in Türkiye2
Hashtag feminism: identity politics and the politicization of social change in Iran2
Queer uploaders on Douyin : traffic chasing, identity expression, and media regulation2
The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals2
An old mind in a young body: womanhood between oppression and expression in Miss Granny2
Reading Chizuko Ueno in China: inter-Asian translation ethics and the ambivalence of transnational feminisms2
Dodging negativity like it’s my freaking job: marketing postfeminist positivity through Beachbody fitness on Instagram2
Large-scale computational content analysis on magazines targeting men and women: the case of Argentina 2008-20182
The LARME incident: on femme idols speaking out in contemporary Japan2
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