Full Description
Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia: From Celebrities to Anti-War Activists examines how Russian discourses of feminism have been informed by fast-evolving cross-border, transcultural, and trans-local media flows, which have both diversified and fragmented the spectrum of feminism in the region.
The book takes a multidisciplinary approch to Russian feminisms, including an examination of Russian politics and culture, the ideology of glamour, celebrity culture, and mass media, with a particular focus on online social networks. Using a set of case studies involving high-profile feminist media personalities, social media influencers, and micro-celebrities appropriating feminist agenda, and the online grassroot responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia: From Celebrities to Anti-War Activists will be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students of media and communication, area, international relations, gender, and cultural studies.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Celebrity Feminism in Russia: Media, Power, and Resistance (an introduction); Chapter 2: Popularisation of feminism through hashtag campaigns 2016-2020; Chapter 3: High-profile celebrity Ksenia Sobchak's 'illusive' appropriation of feminism; Chapter 4: YouTuber Tatiana Mingalomova and feminist influencer culture; Chapter 5: Who can be a 'Russian woman'? Manizha as an intersectional feminist celebrity; Chapter 6: Wonderzine: Neoliberal feminist media and its confluence with Russian center-periphery dynamic; Chapter 7: Feminist anti-war resistance (FAR): feminist media ecology and grassroots activism; Chapter 8: FAR mediated activism: Contradictions between media logic and feminist collective action; Chapter 9: Conclusions: conceptualising feminist media ecology; Index.
