"I'm Not a Feminist...I Only Defend Women as Human Beings": The Production, Representation, and Consumption of Feminism in a Telenovela

Acosta‐Alzuru, Carolina

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“…Being male and being female have meant different things for persons of different ethnicities, and masculinity and femininity have been performed in different ways in different cultures. Although there is older research on this subject, and there is growing research with a global focus (Acosta-Alzuru, 2003;Halevi, 2003;Parameswaran, 1999;Rapoo, 2002;Rodriguez, 2001;Suzuki, 2000), in our sample there was little sustained attention to the implications of cultural variability in gender for experimental research using sex as a variable, and little in the way of new operationalizations of these concepts to take account of cultural variability (see, however, Bayard & Krishnayya, 2001;Bradford, Buck, & Meyers, 2001;Mulac, Bradac, & Gibbons, 2001;Whaley, Nicotera, & Samter, 1998). Researchers studying sex or gender as a variable in communication studies have made exciting advances and face additional challenges, not the least of which is communicating the new, more sophisticated results indicating the complexities involved in sex/gender studies to their nonfeminist colleagues.…”

Section: Analysis Of Sex/gender As a Variable In Communication Practicesmentioning

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The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

Dow

2005

Journal of Communication

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The emergence of feminist scholarship in the field of communication follows, in many respects, a semilar historical trajectory to that of feminist visibility in the culture at large. When the second wave of feminism emerged in public consciousness around 1970, communication scholars began to attend more closely to the role of gender in communication practices. That attention was inflected by the concerns of the women's movement-exposing sexism and sex-role socialization, interrogating the role of power in relations between men and women, understanding how awareness of the influence of gender requires rethinking claims of universality based on male experience and behaviors.

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Section: Analysis Of Sex/gender As a Variable In Communication Practicesmentioning

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The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

Dow

2005

Journal of Communication

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“…61). It is through representation that cultural producers give meaning to texts, highlighting the symbolic underpinnings of culture (Acosta-Alzuru, 2003;p. 274).…”

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Bridging the gap: Mapping the relationship between activism and public relations

Ciszek

2015

Public Relations Review

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“…In recent years, significant contributions include the study of viewers' response to Beverly Hills, 90210 (Rockler, 1999) -a combination of critical analysis of the teenage programme and interviews with female viewers -a survey on sex differences in pleasures among viewers of Ally MacBeal (Cohen and Ribak, 2003) or the extensive study conducted by AcostaAlzuru on a Venezuelan telenovela, research that interestingly enough combines a critical analysis of the show with interviews of three kinds: writers, actors and viewers (Acosta-Alzuru, 2003).…”

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‘Am I supposed to say how shocked I was?’ Audience responses to Mad Men

Agirre

2014

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This essay is the result of an audience research study of the US television series Mad Men. Based on the assumption that there is a postfeminist sensibility embedded within the show, the study uses data drawn from focus groups and email questionnaires with US, UK and Spanish viewers of Mad Men, to determine to what extent this sensibility is felt and shared -if at all -by different viewers. The essay concludes that the postfeminist sensibility might be an entrance gate to the show, but later engagement with the series differs, especially with regard to gender. Although the postfeminist spirit might have feminist consequences in female viewers' interpretations, male viewers tend to read the show in more unproblematic ways. On the other hand, national distinctions have turned out to be very slight.

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"I'm Not a Feminist...I Only Defend Women as Human Beings": The Production, Representation, and Consumption of Feminism in a Telenovela

Cited by 61 publications

References 27 publications

The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

Bridging the gap: Mapping the relationship between activism and public relations

‘Am I supposed to say how shocked I was?’ Audience responses to Mad Men

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