Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere
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Angela Smith
Abstract
This chapter will explore how the rejection of the claims for equality are represented in the technology of the twenty-first century, but at the same time embody the language of a pre-feminist world and can thus be seen to at once empower and restrict feminist discourse. In this way, the crisis in gender relations is one that emerges in the 1990s in Westernised contexts and continues to develop into the twenty-first century, contributing to the emergence of a Fourth Wave of feminist action. As such, “crisis” is employed in this chapter to explore how various small events, seemingly insignificant in isolation, have been raised to public notice through social media to enhance the emergence of Fourth Wave Feminism in the last ten years.
Abstract
This chapter will explore how the rejection of the claims for equality are represented in the technology of the twenty-first century, but at the same time embody the language of a pre-feminist world and can thus be seen to at once empower and restrict feminist discourse. In this way, the crisis in gender relations is one that emerges in the 1990s in Westernised contexts and continues to develop into the twenty-first century, contributing to the emergence of a Fourth Wave of feminist action. As such, “crisis” is employed in this chapter to explore how various small events, seemingly insignificant in isolation, have been raised to public notice through social media to enhance the emergence of Fourth Wave Feminism in the last ten years.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Contributors vii
- Crisis or the media? 1
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Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
- Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
- Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
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Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
- Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
- Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
- Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
- Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
- Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
- Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
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Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
- Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
- Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
- Epilogue 261
- Index 267
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Contributors vii
- Crisis or the media? 1
-
Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
- Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
- Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
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Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
- Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
- Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
- Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
- Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
- Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
- Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
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Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
- Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
- Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
- Epilogue 261
- Index 267
