The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism

Tasha Oren is Associate Professor at the Film and Media Studies Program and the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance at Tufts University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she directed the Film, Media and Digital Studies Program. Oren’s books and co-edited collections include Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television; Global Currents: Media and Technology Now; East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture; Global Asian American Cultures; Global Television Formats – Understanding Television Across Borders; and the forthcoming Food TV: On Eating Media. Andrea L. Press is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology at the University of Virginia. A founding Chair of the Department of Media Studies and former Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival, Press held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, the London School of Economics, and Hebrew University. Press has authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books, including Women Watching Television, Speaking of Abortion; The New Media Environment, Media and Class; Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age; The New Feminist Television Studies;, and the forthcoming Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. She co-edits the Communication Review. Professor Press is incoming Vice-Chair of the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association.

Contemporary Feminism: Editors’ Introduction Section I: Ways of Being 1. Taking Exception Seriously: Essentialism, Constructionism, and Proliferation of Particularities 2. Stories are Data with Soul: Lessons from Black Feminist Epistemology 3. In Does Feminism Have a Generation Gap? Blogging, Millennials, and the Hip Hop Generation 4. Too Soon for Postfeminism 5. Lost in Translation: Challenging (White, Monolingual Feminism’s) Choice with Justicia Reproductiva 6. On Feminist Frontier: On Trans and Feminism Section II: Ways of Living 7. Everyday Life Studies and Feminism 8. Making Culture and Doing Feminism 9. Surveillance is a Feminist Issue 10. Hookup Culture and Higher Education 11. Circling Back: Electronic Literature and Material Feminism Section III: Ways In 12. Gender and Schooling: Progress, Persistent Inequalities and Possible Solutions 13. Why We Need Feminist Games Studies 14. Acting Out: Performing Feminism in the Contemporary Art Museum 15. Can’t I Just be a Filmmaker? Women’s and Feminist Film Festivals’ Resurgence in a Postfeminist World Section IV: Ways of Contesting 16. Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment: Protesting Sexual Violence on Campus, Then and Now 17. Online Feminism: Global Phenomenon, Local Perspective 18. Arab Women’s Feminism(s), Resistance(s) and Activism(s) Within and Beyond the "Arab Spring": Potentials, Limitation, and Future prospects 19. Pussy Riot: A Feminist Band Lost in History and Translation 20. None of this is New (Media): Feminisms in the Social Media Age Section V: Coda A Conversation with Sherry Ortner, Jack Halberstam and Tressie MacMillan Cotto