ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, Feminist Media Studies has published a rich array of research ranging across highly theoretical interventions to detailed empirical studies of socioeconomic disadvantage affecting women. Reading over this archive, it is clear, however, that a number of buried binarisms continue to frame many debates in feminist media studies. This article considers one in particular: the putative divide between second-wave and “post-feminism.” More broadly, it considers how we might move beyond oppositional frames of reference to enact an ethics of engagement that produces a more nuanced relationship between speaking positions within the field and with the objects of our research.
