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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sentimental education across the borders: Hindi soap opera and translation cultures on the Russophone Web48
“Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews39
Correction30
‘Alienated young man’ with plans for ‘murderous vengeance’? Examining portrayals of misogynistic incel violence in the US news media26
Framing feminist protest: a content analysis of the glitter revolution26
“Successful” identity transformation: the representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha26
Reconsidering television true crime and gendered authority in Allen v. Farrow24
Making fun of feminism: British television comedy and the second wave24
The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist “wellness” culture21
Factors influencing occupational gender segregation of videojournalists in Taiwanese TV news channels19
Contentious practices of postfeminist audiencing: online discourse about cinematic feminisms in Birds of Prey19
Microcelebrity around the globe: approaches to cultures of internet fame17
“How marketing consultants commodify social movements: Estelle Ellis, audience construction, and the women’s media market, 1945-1973”17
Saviors, nurturers, or magically insane: a braided reading of white women characters in three ecological narratives16
New outlets of digital feminist activism in China: the #SeeFemaleWorkers campaign15
The darker side of feminist scholarship: how online hate has become the norm14
Letters to the (special) editors of Feminist Media Studies13
The exploitation of Sue Lyon: Lolita (1962), archival research, and questions for film history13
“‘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”13
#FrauenSagenNein - bridging the divide: analyzing the affective network of gender-critical alliances12
This Barbie has melancholy feminism: framing empowerment and grievable lives12
Internet memes and a female “Arab Spring”: mobilising online for the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Hungary in 2012-1312
Authorship and female stardom in Spanish cinema under Franco: Sara Montiel and Marujita Díaz12
Women’s affective labor in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s11
“My dear unwanted”: media discourse on sex-selective abortion in Montenegro11
Adolescent gender differences in internet safety education11
Satirical feminism and the Reparative Tweet: a discourse analysis of the gendered language of @manwhohasitall11
The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo: a case study of Southern Weekly11
Screening women’s trauma: constructing trauma for television in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale11
Gender-equal sexism: a covert and subtle form of gender discrimination11
“The Story of You and Me”: Strategic Ambiguity in the Paratextual Reception of Kim Ji-Young, Born 198211
Fabricating babies: reproduction as production in Storks and The Boss Baby11
Positioning gender in time-travel: time-travel TV dramas as dialogic resources for constructing and re-imagining identity among Mainland Chinese postgraduates in Hong Kong11
Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms10
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show10
“My haters and I ”: personal and political responses to hate speech against female journalists in Austria10
Making Australian institutions in newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement: exceptionalism, co-production and agency10
Beyond feminist heroines: framing the discourses on Kurdish women fighters in three types of Western media10
Emergent distribution strategies and feminist media practices: the case of Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)10
Tennis representations in the 20th-century Brazilian press: women’s bodies in focus10
Epistemologies of ignorance in constructions of fairness and biology: the online swimming community responds to Lia Thomas’ inclusion in women’s swimming events9
The blame game: how video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse9
Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies: an exploratory analysis9
Feminist fire: embodiment and affect in managing conflict in digital feminist spaces9
Home is where the hate is: gender, race, class and the domestic abuse plotline in fiction and on screen9
“What a nasty girl!” incivility and gendered symbolic violence in news discussions9
Paula Green’s feminist activism: changing America through advertising9
“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities9
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media8
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies: Zimbabwe’s Bustop TV8
The affective circulation of the feminist movement via the hashtag #seAcabó and its portrayal in the traditional digital media8
“Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media: humorous motherhood counter-discourse8
Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer & Feminism in Praxis8
Transnational Iranian poetics of resistance: the Green Movement and Iranian women’s agency in Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014)8
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence8
Hyperreal homoerotic love in a monarchized military conjuncture: a situated view of the Thai Boys’ Love industry8
Perils of the princess 2.0: an (auto)ethnographic study of girls playing Super Mario Bros. 28
Conceptualizing academic sustainability7
“Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: imaginaries of a post-violent AI world7
Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence7
The red lipstick movement: exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal7
Has feminism “gone too far?” A mixed-methods exploration of perceptions of digital feminist activism7
Diya : coerced abortion and reproductive autonomy in India7
“Having it both ways”: containing the champions of feminism in female-led origin and solo superhero films7
Women on top? Challenging the “mancession” narrative in the 2010s chick flick7
“The victim lived an intense life”: media (mis)representations of femicide crimes in the Republic of Cyprus7
“Oh for the days when men were men”: constructing, defending and justifying masculinity in newspaper comment forums – a critique7
“Women need not apply”: Sylvia Earle, binary oscillations, and the ecofeminist rhetoric of Mission Blue7
From “borking” to getting “kavanaughed”: language, reputation, and the importance of a (male) name6
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre:The Flowers of War6
Miyazaki’s monstrous mother: a study of Yubaba in Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away6
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder6
African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT)6
Correction6
“Can I become a true feminist?”: An interpretive analysis on the mirroring experience of young Korean women6
Educate yourself! Exploring feminist politics and self-development in Danish online fat activism6
Flying on borrowed feathers: identity formation among gender-variant anime fans in the U.S6
Feeling the future: Wonder Woman discourse and the demands of media response6
Until death do us part: gendered media coverage of the deaths of Israeli male and female public figures6
Men’s comments on elite women athletes: cultural narratives around gender and sport on Instagram6
Framing women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Neoliberal feminism and intergenerational relations at work: an analysis of media representations of feminist mentorship in popular culture6
“I don’t understand what you’re saying now, but you are cute, I love you ”: Global communication between South Korean gay male YouTubers and fans from overseas6
Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary6
The ‘emotional contract’: on obligation and guilt in women influencers’ work with brands6
Suffering as the counter-discourse: the construction of an affective community through feminist podcasts in China6
Protection or commodification of women? Discursive construction of bridewealth on Chinese social media6
Sovereign attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and affective politics in Pakistan5
“If Something Ever Happened, I’d Have No One to Tell:” how online sexism perpetuates young women’s silence5
Reading the queer in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”5
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
Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation5
“By women for women” communicating gender discourse in r/FemaleDatingStrategy5
16 feminist media studies scholars, 7 questions about working in the university (and beyond)5
How horror films constructs Blackness: examples of White supremacist media’s enforcement of necropolitics in genre film5
#RepresentationMatters on TV: a critical textual analysis of intersectional representation at work on NBC’s Superstore5
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China5
Honoured through blood5
Fighting in the shadow of heteropatriarchy: feminists versus gay men’s discursive battle over surrogacy in China5
Distinct information ecologies? Gender knowledge production in German digital legacy and counterpublic media5
“She’s everything”: feminism and the Barbie movie5
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
Provocative eroticism: anger in fourth-wave feminist Danish pop culture5
Veteran journalists and ‘Vieilles Filles’: how gender, age and journalism congregate in The French Dispatch5
“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times5
Bargaining with patriarchy or converting men into pro-feminists: social-mediated frame alignment in feminist connective activism5
“My feminism is better than yours!” the lack of intersectionality in feminist digital discourses in Ghana5
Persistent racialized commodification amidst technological innovation: exceptionalist Filipina bride representations from analog to digital5
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)4
Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era4
“Wifeys, bitches, and sluts”: the gender burden and other obstacles behind the creation of television’s antiheroines4
Single parenthood, the non-residential parent and co-parenting in Swedish daily news4
A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality4
Blaming and shaming in the shadow structure: individual resistance towards gender equality work as expressions of social conflict4
When feminists are misidentified as traitors: nationalism, disinformation, and anti-feminism in Chinese cyberspace4
Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping4
Art-based research, decoloniality & gender-based violence: Voices of women students from India4
The womb as Battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese Social Media4
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media4
The media capabilities of Druze women in Israel4
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
“Situating and sustaining feminist action: lessons from digital games inclusivity organizing”4
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China4
HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports4
Being a positive influence(r): Exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram4
Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film4
Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture4
Locating disability within online body positivity discourses: an analysis of #DisabledAndCute4
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring4
”You do it for the good times”: rival feminist readings of torture and kink in Grand Theft Auto V4
The world is collapsing, but we are in love: Xianxia romance as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China4
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland4
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’4
Dramatising a contemporary childhood sexual abuse narrative: reinforcing a hierarchy of victims4
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok4
Data activism and social media in the case of racialized and gendered deaths and disappearances4
The rise of nande : a case study of digital feminism in China4
When the Black lives that matter are not our own: digital Black feminism and a dialectic of self and community4
Mickey’s main squeeze: the gendered portrayal of Minnie Mouse in the early era (1928 – 1935) and modern era (2013 – 2019)3
The gender of the meme: women and protest media in populist Hungary3
Watch out for the big girls: Black plus-sized content creators creating space and amplifying visibility in digital spaces3
Window shopping in barbie land: the kinetic and aesthetic pleasures of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)3
Strategic femininity on Facebook: women’s experiences negotiating gendered discourses on social media3
Watching National Treasure , creating danmei tongren : stories of power and the power of stories3
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
The translation of moral panic into misogynist e-bile: the case of Turkish singer Gülşen3
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism3
Being independent women in blogs: young Chinese women bloggers’ construction of independent persona and strategic subjectivity on Xiaohongshu3
#metoo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China3
Tactics of diversity? Exploring self-care dilemmas among feminist activists on Instagram3
Examining gender representations in the pilot episode of the anime Attack on Titan3
Spain’s ‘First Feminist Film’: Feminism and Francoism,Margarita and the Wolf(Cecilia Bartolomé 1969)3
When the hunter plays the hunted: heterosexual Chinese women’s negotiations with hegemonic sexual scripts on dating apps3
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter: deconstructing affect and emotion in the #MeToo movement3
Fear, freaks, and fat phobia: an examination of howMy 600 Lbs Lifedisplays “fat” Black women3
Circulating desire: queer logistical aesthetics3
“Joss is (no longer?) Boss”: three layers of cancelling in the joss whedon fan community3
Barbie as eve: feminist theology and Greta Gerwig3
Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other3
Un(veil)ing context collapse: #hijab3
“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
Complacency and misogyny, or positive changes that add up to a movement? How the UK screen industries are addressing sexual harassment in the workplace3
Octopuses, remoras, and surfers: speculative stories from the offline space of digital circulation in Cuba3
Gendered keywords as entry points: the construction and evolution ofnüpinandnüxing-xiangin Chinese Internet literature3
Women’s safety work on dating apps and rape culture3
RevisitingEl Viento del Ayahuasca(1983): gender representation in a pioneer female director’s film about the Amazon3
Introduction: global queer fandoms of Asian media and celebrities3
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature3
Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze3
Perfect: feeling judged on social media: a roundtable discussion3
“Timeless” rock masculinities: understanding the gendered dimension of an annual Belgian radio music poll3
“I think the men are behind it”: reproductive labour and the horror of second wave feminism3
Gender imbalance in MMORPG: the case of World of Warcraft in Brazil3
Being watched and feeling judged on social media3
Beauty police: the construction and implementation of beauty standards in Romanian news TV3
Facing exclusion in neoliberal times: technologies of the self of older women in the series Grace and Frankie3
Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts3
“The women are every bit as good as the men”: a postfeminist critique of LPGA players’ quest for equity in golf3
Fascism, nature and communication: a discursive-affective analysis of cuteness in ecofascist propaganda3
You’re doing it wrong: the governance of motherhood through mommy blogs3
Editors’ introduction: the twentieth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies3
Structural-violence framing, de-gendering discourse, and muted misogyny: the official media’s representation of gender-based violence in contemporary china3
Narratives of relationality and time in fertility preservation vlogs3
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”: the dangai industry, queer masculinity and the “opacity” of the state3
Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel3
Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt2
Sexual harassment and its vicissitudes: Jadavpur University, 2014-172
Margarita, the Big Bad Wolf, and the film censor: film, feminism, and dictatorial repression in Spain2
The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals2
When ‘atypical’ is the new typical: a critical analysis of the representation of virginity among neurodivergent men characters in TV series2
“The butterfly effect”: sexual assault and the aftermath on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why2
The (unlocated) in-game gender performativity in contemporary China: exploring gender swapping practices in the online game sphere2
An old mind in a young body: womanhood between oppression and expression in Miss Granny2
For Better or Worse: A Gendered Outlook of the films The Leisure Seeker and Alaska2
The relationship between instagram use and body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and internalization of beauty ideals: a correlational study of Iranian women2
Migrant mothers and neoliberal feminism: diasporic audience research on the Korean reality show strangers2
Gender as a central site of inquiry within mis- and disinformation studies2
Bedroom eyes: women dressing and redressing in The Best Years of Our Lives2
Cyberbullying and feminism in Pakistan: the stories of feminist activists in Lahore2
From a slap to a punch: preparing Hermione Granger for postfeminist Hollywood2
Boys love media in Thailand: celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture2
Privileged underdogs: the heterotopias and anti-political correctness of upper-class men in a Swedish digital space2
Daughters of jianghu : female heroism in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin and Ash Is Purest White2
How Leikeli47 is glitching heteronormativity across the music industry2
Queering digital media spatiality: a phenomenology of bodies being stopped2
Inability to love: change of intimate structure in the documentary Hard love2
Belonging, responsibility and reflexivity: mediated intimacy among Finnish nonbinary and trans social media users2
Not alone: a queer reading of Enola Holmes2
Slippery scripts: “SOAP dropping” threats in the gendered prison setting2
Mapping the manosphere. Categorization of reactionary masculinity discourses in digital environment2
Listening to women’s personal stories about suicide: an online thematic analysis of the discourse on UK parenting forum Mumsnet2
Post-feminism and the “mind”: the mental makeover paradigm2
Gendered cooking and Indian marriages: reading Tarla from a feminist viewpoint2
“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
A male feminist walks into a bar: male feminist capital and the “bloke turn” in feminism2
Patriarchy in disguise: reproducing male hegemony through the Ninja TV competition2
“Normal confident guys”: Chinese female stand-up comedians performing, triggering, and commercializing the “female complaint”2
Queer uploaders on Douyin : traffic chasing, identity expression, and media regulation2
The power of vulnerability: women stand-up comedians’ triumph through self-deprecation2
An analysis of Josh condom commercials: perspectives on female sexuality in Pakistani culture2
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime2
Hashtag feminism: identity politics and the politicization of social change in Iran2
Dodging negativity like it’s my freaking job: marketing postfeminist positivity through Beachbody fitness on Instagram2
Analyzing cultural politics through the “dancing body”: a study of Assamese item songs in India2
Strategic mouthing of words: the Chinese bromance drama Word of Honor , censorship and gender stereotypes2
“Those girls are vicious little monsters”: reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets2
Women, anger and emotion management in Love Island2
The temptation of performing cuteness: Shirley Temple’s birthday parties during the Great Depression2
Feminism and Facebook : the possibility of political subjectivation experiences2
Immanent cinematic girlhoods: the ordinary affects in/ofEighth Grade2
Breathing spaces? The politics of embodiment, affect, and genre in Mare of Easttown and Happy Valley2
Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: postnatal depression narratives, treatment and reception on BBC radio, 1946–19852
COVID-19 pandemic and women transitioning from incarceration: a study of online health information seeking among underserved and marginalized women2
Institutionalized ‘bad girls’: adolescent female folk devils in Canadian newspapers between 1991 and 20122
Gender status inertia in biographical films: an overview of the motion picture industry from 1900 to 20172
Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship2
“Surface and depth: ambivalence as postfeminist ideal in Barbie2
Revisiting digital defense and Black feminism on social media2
Affordances and platformed visual misogyny: a call for feminist approaches in visual methods2
Anxiety in defining the older woman in contemporary British television drama: Gold Digger (BBC one, 2019—) and Flesh and Blood (ITV, 2020—2
History or vanity? The first “female” referees in the history of the FIFA World Cup and its reflections on Twitter2
“I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”: a narrative analysis of Chrissy Teigen’s social media describing her miscarriage2
Reality television and the promotion of problematic behavior among cast members: a case study content analysis through the lens of feminist and media framing theories2
Recounting feminicide: the relational accountability of citizen data practices2
Gendered power relations in the digital age: an analysis of Japanese women’s media choice and use within a global context2
Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south2
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