Reflections on Feminist Communication and Media Scholarship Theory, Method, Impact

This collection brings together ten of the most distinguished feminist scholars whose work has been celebrated for its excellence in helping to lay the foundation of feminist communication and media research.

This edited volume features contributions by the first ten renowned communication and media scholars that have received the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship from the Feminist Scholarship Division (FSD) of the International Communication Association (ICA): Patrice M. Buzzanell, Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Radha Sarma Hegde, Dafna Lemish, Radhika Parameswaran, Lana F. Rakow, Karen Ross, H. Leslie Steeves, Linda Steiner, and Angharad N. Valdivia. These distinguished scholars reflect on the contributions they have made to different subfields of media and communication scholarship, and offer invaluable insight into their own paths as feminist scholars. They each reflect on matters of power, agency, privilege, ethics, intersectionality, resilience, and positionality, address their own shortcomings and struggles, and look ahead to potential future directions in the field. Last but not least, they come together to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women, marginalized people, and vulnerable populations, and to underline the crucial need for feminist communication and media scholarship to move beyond Eurocentrism toward an ethics of care and global feminist positionality.

A comprehensive and inspiring resource for students and scholars of feminist media and communication studies.

Foreword Introduction: Squaring Feminist Scholarship with Media and Communications Studies Part I: Reflecting the Past 1. Feminist Editing of a Mainstream Journal: Reckoning with Process and Content Related Challenges 2. The Lunchroom Sessions: Lessons in Vulnerability and Resistance from a Junior High Cafeteria 3. Designing Feminist Resilience Part II: Taking Stock of the Present 4. A Feminist Odyssey from the Personal to the Public 5. Suffrage Media Historiography and Status Politics 6. Memory, Media, and Gender Violence in Kenya: Revisiting the St. Kizito Secondary School Crime of 1991 7. Feminist Endurance: Global Elisions and the Labor of Critique Part III: Writing the Future 8. A Negotiated Feminist Agenda: Doing Politics, Researching News, Going Digital 9. Feminist Media Studies: We Need to Take Intersectionality Seriously 10. Global Feminist Positionality (GFP): Coordinates of Time, Space, and Location in Research 11. What Is Happening Here?: Re-imagining Feminist Communication and Media Work amid a Global Pandemic Conclusion: Community, Deep Analysis, and Self-Reflexivity: Feminist Media and Communication Scholars Urge That Our Work Must Be Intersectional

Stine Eckert is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on the intersection of media, gender, and minorities as well as the democratic potential of new media for publics.

Ingrid Bachmann is Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. A former reporter, her research explores the role of the news media in the definition of meanings within the public sphere.