Andrea Press
University of Virginia, Media Studies and Sociology, Wiliam R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Media Studies Department Chair
Phone: +1 434 243 8855
Address: University of Virginia
Department of Media Studies
Department of Sociology
223 Wilson Hall
PO Box 400866
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4866
USA
Address: University of Virginia
Department of Media Studies
Department of Sociology
223 Wilson Hall
PO Box 400866
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4866
USA
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/02/the-new-misogyny/
Press, Andrea L., and Francesca Tripodi. 2014. “What We Found While Lurking on an Anonymous College Message Board for Two Years.” SLATE, June 5, 2014. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/06/05/sexism_on_college_campuses_what_we_found_lurking_on_college_acb_at_a_large.html
In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars reflect on how contemporary feminism has shaped their thinking and their field as they interrogate its uses, limits, and reinventions. Organized as a set of questions over definition, everyday life, critical intervention, and political activism, the Handbook takes on a broad set of issues and points of view to consider what feminism is today and what current forces shape its future development. It also includes an extended conversation among major feminist thinkers about the future of feminist scholarship and activism.
The scholars gathered here address a wide variety of topics and contexts: activism from post-Soviet collectives to the Arab spring, to the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment, feminist art, film and digital culture, education, technology, policy, sexual practices and gender identity. Indispensable for scholars undergraduate and postgraduate students in women, gender, and sexuality, the collection offers a multidimensional picture of the diversity and utility of feminist thought in an age of multiple uncertainties.
"Andrea L. Press's book Women Watching Television is a sophisticated sociological study of class and generational differences in women's responses to television. . . . Press's book represents a careful and thorough piece of research, where findings are enriched by the broad, interdisciplinary bases and wide background reading for the research."—Signs
Feminism as a method, a movement, a critique, and an identity has been the subject of debates, contestations, and revisions in recent years, yet contemporary global developments and political upheavals have again refocused feminism’s collective force. What is feminism now? How do scholars and activists employ contemporary feminism? What feminist traditions endure? Which are no longer relevant in addressing contemporary global conditions?
In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars reflect on how contemporary feminism has shaped their thinking and their field as they interrogate its uses, limits, and reinventions. Organized as a set of questions over definition, everyday life, critical intervention, and political activism, the Handbook takes on a broad set of issues and points of view to consider what feminism is today and what current forces shape its future development. It also includes an extended conversation among major feminist thinkers about the future of feminist scholarship and activism.
The scholars gathered here address a wide variety of topics and contexts: activism from post-Soviet collectives to the Arab spring, to the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment, feminist art, film and digital culture, education, technology, policy, sexual practices, and gender identity. Indispensable for scholars and undergraduate and postgraduate students in women, gender, and sexuality, the collection offers a multidimensional picture of the diversity and utility of feminist thought in an age of multiple uncertainties.