Women's Studies in Communication articles

Recent articles from Women's Studies in Communication

Power, feminisms, and coalitional agency: inviting and enacting difficult dialogues.
March 22, 2009... Discussions of "post" or "power" feminism have populated the pages of media journals for some time now as voices of feminism's Third Wave, as well as some from the Second, have proclaimed that feminism is no longer needed; at the very least, women should stop talking about oppression and...

Subject to power--feminism without victims.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... This essay locates the subject of feminist inquiry within two articulations of power feminism: Foss and Foss's and Anzaldua's. I argue that the former employs an individualistic notion of feminist subjectivity, while the latter presumes a subject embedded in, and hence accountable to,...

Our journey to repowered feminism: expanding the feminist toolbox.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... We explore our feminist journey using Bitzer's rhetorical situation. We started with an exigence of oppression, the audience as representatives of the dominant system, the constraints as unequal structural features, and strategies of petition and resistance. We then moved to conceptualizing...

"Gucci Geishas" and Post-feminism.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... During the early 1990s, "post-feminists" like Camille Paglia argued women's superiority to men, evidenced in the "power" of female (hetero)sexuality. These formulations found their way into popular film, television, and print media, including several texts about Japanese geisha. Translating...

Power feminism, mediated: girl power and the commercial politics of change.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... In 1993, Naomi Wolf presented a divisive polemic on feminism. In Fire with Fire, (1) a New York Times notable book and national bestseller, Wolf called for a new approach to address shortcomings she perceived in the feminist movement. She cited a chief concern: that feminism was out of touch...