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*/Feminist Media Studies/**: The Journal’s Tenth Anniversary Issue*

 To mark the 10th anniversary of /Feminist Media Studies/, the editors 
invited a diverse and multi-generational group of seventeen prominent 
and promising feminist scholars from around the world to each contribute 
a brief, thought-provoking essay that would remark on a set of questions 
similar to those that we asked contributors to address in the first 
issue of Feminist Media Studies. The questions directed them to comment 
on the current status and future directions of feminist media studies, 
as follows:

 1. What constitutes “feminist media studies” one decade into the 
twenty-first century?

2. What in your view have been some of the most exciting and productive 
recent intellectual developments within feminist media studies?

3. What directions within feminist media studies should be re-thought 
and/or further developed?

4. What new directions would you propose for theory and research within 
feminist media studies (the field and the journal)?

 In the Commentary and Criticism section, we offer two interviews from 
feminists in the “global South,” one featuring Ana Carolina Escosteguy, 
a media scholar in Brazil, and the other featuring Anita Gurumurthy, a 
media activist/researcher located in India. The main aim of the 
interviews was to elicit their views on what sorts of social, cultural 
and economic impacts feminist media studies might be having in their 
respective countries and regions and the extent to which feminist ideas 
and activism is shaping everyday life. The interviews demonstrate the 
importance of investigating the local while simultaneously acknowledging 
global shifts in knowledge production and distribution.

The contents of the anniversary issue are listed below.


*/Feminist Media Studies/**, volume 11, number 1 (10th Anniversary Issue)*

_Contents_

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: The tenth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies

Cynthia Carter and Lisa McLaughlin

ARTICLES:

ARAB FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES

Towards a poetics of diversity

Salam Al-Mahadin

SEX, SHOPPING AND SECURITY

Thinking about feminist media studies again

Gargi Bhattacharyya

BRIDGING THE GAPS

Feminist generation gaps and feminist media studies in the U.S. context

Mary Beltran

AFRICAN FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES

A view from the global South

Tanja Bosch

“ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES!”

Black women, black feminism in Feminist Media Studies

Robin R. Means Coleman

THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE

Gender equality, journalism and the good society

Monika Djerf-Pierre

BODY MATTERS

Resuscitating the corporeal in a new media environment

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

SEXISM RELOADED,

or, It’s time to get angry again!

Rosalind Gill

DO YOUR HOMEWORK

New media, old problems

Melissa Gregg

A FEMINIST POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNICATION

Micky Lee

“PRO-SUMING” SWEARING (VERBAL VIOLENCE)

“Affect” as feminist (internet) criticism

Lisa Leung

PAST THE POST IN FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES

Catharine Lumby

UNVEILING FRANCE’S BORDER STRATEGIES

Gender and the politics of the headscarf ban

Angela McRobbie

FEMINISM AND MEDIA IN THE POST-FEMINIST ERA

What to make of the “feminist” in feminist media studies

Andrea Press

ARRIVING AT A CROSSROADS

Political priorities for a socially relevant feminist media scholarship

Katharine Sarikakis

WANTED, ALIVE AND KICKING

Curious feminist digital policy geeks

Leslie Regan Shade

CRITICAL REGIONALITIES IN INTER-ASIA AND THE QUEER DIASPORA

Audrey Yue


COMMENTARY AND CRITICISM

Introduction: Negotiating the local/global in feminist media studies:

Conversations with Ana Carolina Escosteguy and Anita Gurumurthy

Kumarini Silva and Kaitlynn Mendes

Feminist Media Studies in the Latin American Context: A Conversation 
between Ana Carolina Escosteguy and Kumarini Silva

ICT and Feminism in India: A Conversation between Anita Gurumurthy and 
Kaitlynn Mendes

/Feminist Media Studies/ is published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis 
Ltd. Online contents may be accessed at 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms.

Dr Cynthia Carter
Senior Lecturer
Cardiff School of Journalism,
Media and Cultural Studies
Cardiff University
Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff, Wales
UK CF10 3NB

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email: (cartercl /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)
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