Trending now: feminism, sexism, misogyny and postfeminism in British journalism

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Gill, Rosalind and Toms, Katie. 2019. Trending now: feminism, sexism, misogyny and postfeminism in British journalism. In: Cynthia Carter; Linda Steiner and Stuart Allan, eds. Journalism, Gender and Power. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 97-112. ISBN 9781138895324 [Book Section]

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In the last few years feminism has gained spectacular visibility across media and popular culture. As Sarah Banet-Weiser (2018) observes, "everywhere you turn, there is an expression of feminism - on a T-shirt, in a movie, in the lyrics of a pop song, in an inspirational instagram post, in an acceptance speech". News media have been pivotal to this, not only reporting on feminist campaigns such as slutwalk or metoo, or on feminist demonstrations like the Women's marches, but also centering feminism as a topic of discussion - whether substantively in terms of equal pay or sexual violence, or more broadly as something to be routinely asked of politicians, actresses or pop stars. "The new DO: Calling yourself a feminist" announced Glamour magazine in the US, cementing a wider impression that no interview of a high-profile woman is complete without its subject being asked about their views of or identification with feminism.

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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179520

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“This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Journalism, Gender and Power on 12 February 2019, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Journalism-Gender-and-Power/Carter-Steiner-Allan/p/book/9781138895362. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.”