Book chapter
Girls, Media, and Sexuality: The Case for Feminist Ethics
Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research, pp.83-91
Comparative Feminist Studies, Springer International Publishing
07/13/2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90838-0_6
Abstract
The analysis of media representations of female sexuality has sparked ongoing scholarly debates in which the harms of sexualization are counterpoised against the notion of a “moral panic” over girls’ sexual expression. However, the polarized terms of the debate fail to account for the importance of radical contextualization in analyzing the mediation of girls’ sexuality. Using the Aristotelian concept of Eudaimonia, or the ideal of a “flourishing life,” and its basis in the material conditions of existence, it is proposed here that issues of power, vulnerability, and the politics of location must be taken into account in feminist media studies such that sexual representation’s connections with gendered social inequalities and injustices are recognized and redressed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Girls, Media, and Sexuality: The Case for Feminist Ethics
- Creators
- Meenakshi Gigi Durham - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research, pp.83-91
- Series
- Comparative Feminist Studies
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-90838-0_6
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/13/2018
- Academic Unit
- President; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; English; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984272148802771
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