By Helen Warner Heather Savigny
ISBN-10: 1137384662
ISBN-13: 9781137384669
ISBN-10: 1349480983
ISBN-13: 9781349480982
What does it suggest to be a lady within the twenty first century? The feminist circulate has a protracted and wealthy heritage, yet is its time now handed? This edited assortment is pushed by way of the query, why is feminism seen through a few (we may upload a majority) as outmoded, not worthwhile and having accomplished its ambitions, and what function have the media performed during this?
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But crucially the contemporary neoliberal project requires us not just to purchase products, but for women, we are to make ourselves the products. Women are positioned as commodities, commercially available as never before. Contemporary capitalism operates in a context in which neoliberalism in the West, predominates. Here the focus is on the individual; individual success and achievement. This focus on the individual negates the presence of groups and collectives. For example, just as Philip Green claims credit for the successes of Top Shop, Introduction 19 denying the contribution of thousands of workers in stores and across factories making garments; so Katy Perry’s statement gives an example of the individual claims to success which deny the advances and the presence of the collective women’s movement/feminism’s achievements, both today and in the past.
This is particularly interesting on the basis that it sets these two groups of women, who perform very different roles in the news coverage, in direct competition with one another. This emphasises the extent to which women are positioned as individuals who are free to pursue the own agendas, rather than as a group who have similar interests and who are required to struggle in solidarity for equality. Placing women in direct competition with one another reinforces the idea that feminist solidarity is no longer necessary.
This will be discussed in relation to the way that the spouses of party leaders were portrayed as in traditional ways as agents of the private sphere to support their male spouses and especially the way in which this was portrayed as a distinct choice. This furthermore demonstrates what Gill (2007) describes as the re-assertion of sexual difference. This will be discussed in relation to the way in which the emphasis placed upon the spouses at the expense of women political actors in the news coverage serves to re-assert traditional notions of the public and political sphere as arenas for men whilst women are confined to supportive, domestic and private roles.
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