2012/10/04 by Morgan Genevieve Blue · 3 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Art #Context (archaeology) #Femininity #Feminism #Foregrounding #Gender studies #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Girl #History #Ideology #Law #Linguistics #Literature #Media Studies and Communication #Media, Gender, and Advertising #Narrative #Philosophy #Political science #Politics #Power (physics) #Psychology #Rhetoric #Sensibility #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1080/14680777.2012.724024
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The Disney Channel hit show, Hannah Montana, constructs contemporary US girlhood and notions of femininity in relation to celebrity, such that its primary girl characters, Hannah Montana, Miley Stewart, and Lilly Truscott, as well as star Miley Cyrus, are positioned as particularly post-feminist subjects. In such a context, each of these girls can be understood as having chosen to perform a femininity that finds its locus in the maintenance and control of the body, as an illustration of her power as a girl, though without reference to feminist gains or “empowerment” rhetoric. Via discursive, narrative, and ideological textual analysis, this project explores the circulation of a post-feminist sensibility, as Rosalind Gill refers to it, and its iterations and ramifications for constructions of girlhood in contemporary media foregrounding girls and attracting young female audiences.