Introduction

Feminist media scholarship has gone from a marginal endeavour several decades ago to become immensely influential across the field of communications. Not surprisingly, given the dearth of venues devoted to feminist media studies ten years ago, the arrival of the journal Feminist Media Studies was widely regarded by many feminists as “long overdue.” While there had been a rapid growth in feminist communication scholarship, the rate of that growth was not matched by a concomitant range of major, international forums in which an increasingly diverse array of such work could be published. As editors of Feminist Media Studies, we are proud to have had the opportunity to offer a venue for much of the most important, current scholarship in the field for over a decade. We celebrated in 2011 with a tenth year anniversary issue of the journal. The chapters in this collection originally were published in the special issue marking the tenth year anniversary of Feminist Media Studies.