A Question of Contrast: Unpacking the<i>Mail Online</i>’s Depiction of Meghan Markle’s Royal Motherhood

McGill, Mary

doi:10.1080/07491409.2021.1912516

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“…They were branded as odd or dictatorial, much like artist Yoko Ono or Duchess Wallis Simpson. These findings came only a year after MaryMcGill's research where she established that another tabloid, the Daily Mail repeatedly used the "feuding women" trope when covering Meghan and Kate Middleton(McGill, 2021). As for Linda, her musician persona in the Mirror, was consistent with what Davies and Strong found…”

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“…In 2021, Mary McGill analyzed how the British tabloid the Daily Mail approached the coverage of Meghan Markle. She found that the paper actively contrasted "modern" Markle with her sister-in-law, "classic" and "traditional" Kate Middleton (McGill, 2021, p. 220), who, ironically, had been labeled "Waity-Kaity'' by the same tabloid, as she, had apparently waited too long for a marriage proposal from Prince William (McGill, 2021).…”

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“…McGill found that the comparison was drawn in multiple categories associated with femininity, including fashion, self-care and pregnancy. While Middleton was presented as an embodiment of Britishness in an almost patriotic way, Markle was said to be defying royal protocol (McGill, 2021).…”

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Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men

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Half a century apart, two American women caught the attention of British tabloids for marrying British celebrity men: Linda Eastman, a rock photographer from New York wed Paul McCartney, the last bachelor Beatle in 1969. In 2018, actor Meghan Markle joined the royal rank when she tied the knot with Prince Harry Windsor in front of millions of tv-watchers. By the act of marriage, the women became subjects of extensive tabloid coverage in Britain. This paper looks at how one tabloid -- the Daily Mirror has approached covering Linda and Meghan. It examines how tabloid reporters constructed the life stories of the women for audiences and how the women have reacted to it in interviews. Spanning across decades from late 1960's to early 2020's, the paper analyzes how the Mirror has approached foreign women married to British celebrity men and questions the reasoning behind the tabloid's choices.

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“…As part of this ideological positioning the Daily Mail has promoted biological womanhood, which closely links women to their reproductive bodies (e.g. Mavin et al, 2018; McGill, 2021). Menopause appears to sit perfectly with this agenda as well as with the Daily Mail’ s significant older female readership (Hurst Media, 2022; Statista, 2021), whereby an emphasis on ‘the change’ as a ‘real woman’s issue’ supports the (re)suturing of notions of ideal womanhood to the biological body and to whiteness.…”

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The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage

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Rottenberg

2023

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Drawing on feminist scholarship that interrogates cultural representations of ageing women, this article examines UK news coverage of menopause from 2001 to 2021. We show that not only has there been a dramatic rise in menopause’s visibility since 2015, and especially since 2021, but that the coverage is concentrated in the conservative right-wing press. We also document six peaks in coverage, which are driven by celebrity stories, news about menopause-related medical guidelines, national hormone replacement therapy shortages and menopause-related governmental interventions, as well as the use of menopause as a metaphor for the economy. Based on these findings, we discuss some key social, cultural and economic forces that may help explain menopause’s heightened visibility. These include the rise of popular neoliberal feminism, celebrity culture, changing demographics and changes to UK work policy, ideological notions of biological womanhood and the influence of Big Pharma. We conclude by highlighting how menopause’s new luminosity contributes to challenging its traditional invisibility and negative framing, and gendered ageism more broadly. Yet, at the same time, in its current iteration, menopause’s increased visibility may reinforce a neoliberal feminist framework that deflects attention away from understanding menopause as a social and cultural issue, while also buttressing narrow conceptions of femininity and supporting neoliberal policies that aim to keep older women in the workforce for longer.

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“…Future research could build on this perspective by considering blogging with reference to racial and class inequalities. Within the British Royal Family context, there has been extensive media commentary on Meghan Markle’s racial identity and a tendency to unfavourably, and sometimes hostilely, compare Meghan with Kate (McGill, 2021). Studies may consider how blogging is implicated in these racialised and class discourses of femininity.…”

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Putting passion to work: passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere

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Hewer

2022

EJM

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Purpose This study aims to explore passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere and addresses two research questions: How does passion animate passionate labour? How does the emotion of passions and the discipline of labour fuse within passionate labour? Design/methodology/approach This study presents a three-year netnographic fieldwork of replikate fashion blogger-preneurs. Data are based on in-depth interviews, blogs, social media posts and informed by the relationships developed across these platforms. Findings Throughout the findings, this study unpacks the “little passions” that animate the passionate labour of blogger-preneurs. Passions include: passion for performing the royal lifestyle, the mobilisation of passion within strategic sociality and transformation and self-renewal through blogging. Lastly, the cycle of passion illustrates how passions can be recycled into new passionate projects. Research limitations/implications This study offers insight on how passionate labour requires the negotiation and mobilisation of emotion alongside a calculated understanding of market logics. Practical implications This study raises implications for aspiring blogger-preneurs, luxury brand managers and organisations beyond the blogging context. Originality/value The contribution of this study lies in the cultural understanding of passion as a form of labour where passion has become a way of life. The theorisation of passionate labour contributes to existing research in three ways. First, this study identifies social mimesis as a driver of passionate labour and its links to class distinction. Second, it offers insight on how passionate labour requires the negotiation and mobilisation of emotion alongside a calculated understanding of market logics. Third, it advances critical debate around exploitation and inequality within digital labour by demonstrating how passion is unequally distributed.

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A Question of Contrast: Unpacking theMail Online’s Depiction of Meghan Markle’s Royal Motherhood

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men

Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men

The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage

Putting passion to work: passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere

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