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Since its first forays as an academic discipline, feminist media theory and research have made important contributions to our understandings of women’s status, gender ideologies, and the complex circumstances that define and often constrain women’s lives. It continues to do so in the current globalized world and increasingly complex media landscape and in so doing it underscores the need for transdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and encompassing approaches to gender and media. In this chapter, we review feminist media studies and address the challenges in contemporary cultural contexts, while providing a roadmap for this edited volume.
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Bachmann, I., Harp, D., Loke, J. (2018). Through a Feminist Kaleidoscope: Critiquing Media, Power, and Gender Inequalities. In: Harp, D., Loke, J., Bachmann, I. (eds) Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research. Comparative Feminist Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90838-0_1
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