ABSTRACT
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this collection of essays examines the ways in which popular media re-construct ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore a comprehensive range of questions including: How have post-socialist women engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation? What are the consequences of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context? How does the female body serve as a battleground for the enactment and renegotiation of gendered identities and ideologies? How can we understand and theorize post-socialist women’s activist movements?
In seeking answers to such questions, this volume highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces. It bridges research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|17 pages
Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities: Contested histories and visibilities
part |1 pages
WATCHING PINK REALITY TV
part 8|1 pages
Between Sovietism and Americanization: Ideals of femininity during and after the Cold War in Finland
part |1 pages
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