Gender in the Digital Sphere

Barbara Mitra is senior lecturer in Media and Culture at the University of Worcester. Sharon Young is course leader in English Literature at the University of Worcester. Mehreen Mirza is associate dean in the Faculty of Arts, Society and Professional Studies at Newman University, Birmingham.

List of Tables and Appendices

Introduction: Representation, Engagement and Expression, Sharon Young

Chapter 1: The relationship between social media, body image and gender drawing on interviews with teenagers, Barbara Mitra

Chapter 2: Girls will be Boys and Boys will be Girls: It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, Mark Vicars and Janine Arantes

Chapter 3: “Well yes Sir, I’m Fat, and Yes, Sometimes I’m a Bitch”: Empowering Representations of Fat Identity in Plus-Size Women’s Fashion Blogs, Hanna Limatius

Chapter 4: Empowering or silencing: The #MeToo campaign in retrospect, Jemma McCarron and Barbara Mitra

Chapter 5: To Scroll, Share and Sign: Young Adults and Digital Feminist Activism, Rebecca Feasey

Chapter 6: The Social Media of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of Popular Feminism, Ruth Garland

Chapter 7: Hoping Women: A Case Study on Aspirant Bloggers in Turkey, Melike Asli Sim

Chapter 8: “We need men to be Men”: Constructions of Hegemonic Masculinity in Online Responses to the 2019 We Believe Gilette Advertisement, Federica Formato and Amanda Iveson

Chapter 9: Gender and New Words in an Online World, Jenny Lewin-Jones

Conclusion: Reflection, Mehreen Mirza and Barbara Mitra

About the Contributors

Index