Mediating third-wave feminism: appropriation as postmodern media practice

The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

“…There is a growing influx of postcolonialist and globalist theoretical orientations (Diaz, 2003;Durham, 2001;Hegde, 1999;McKinley & Jensen, 2003;Parameswaran, 1999;Ram, 2002), as well as influence from womanist theory and critical race theory (Behling, 2002;Carlson, 1999;Hamlet, 2000;Ono & Buescher, 2001). We found echoes of poststructuralist theory in several critical pieces (e.g., Dow, 2001;Lay, 2003;Rockler, 2001;Sloop, 2000;Townsley & Geist, 2000), and several essays also engaged the various understandings of "Third Wave" feminism (Diaz, 2003;Hogeland, 2001;Lotz, 2003;Shugart, 2001;Shugart, Egley, & Hallstein, 2001).…”

Negotiating Feminist Politics in the Third Wave: Labor Struggle and Solidarity inLive Nude Girls Unite!

“…Such a politics is, according to Shugart et al (2001), characteristic of the third wave's ''embracing of contradiction so that apparently inconsistent political viewpoints coexist in the name of third-wave feminism' ' (p. 195). They also noted that, ''Third-wavers seek to embrace sexual desire and expression, freeing it from the limits of patriarchy and heterosexuality as well as from what they perceive to be the anti-sex sensibilities of second-wave feminism' ' (p. 195).…”

“…[2] For more information on post-feminism and third-wave feminism and its representations in the media, see McRobbie (2004); Shugart (2001); and Shugart, Waggoner, and Hallstein (2001). For a greater discussion of the relation between the second and third waves, including continuity and difference, see Bailey (1997).…”

“I Am Not a Cow”: Challenging Narratives of Empowerment in Teen Girls Sports Fiction

“…Thus, commercial media visibility has been situated as both the tool for amassing power and a barometer for assessing women's cultural status (Banet-Weiser, 2004). Furthermore, girl power is grounded in neo-liberal discourse, where the ability to choose is privileged as the goal, regardless of the choice actually made (Shugart et al, 2001). Girl-power rhetoric is often situated in the celebration of the "feminine," an enticing invitation to young women raised in a conservative era marked by an intense backlash to second-wave feminist politics and its seemingly "anti-sex" sentiments (Shugart et al,p.…”