Serving Equality. Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports.
(Cooky-Antunovic)
Introduction.
The authors mention an “explicit feminist critique of sexism
in media coverage” (2) by the mid-2010s. Do you agree with
them?
Do you think that “the potential of women’s athleticism” (2)
can challenge ideologies of natural male superiority?
What do the authors mean by “hegemonic masculinity as a
theoretical framework by which to analyze and interpret
sports media” (2)?
Is this theoretical framework still functioning? How?
How do the authors position themselves in the context of
gender inequalities in sports media?
How is “postfeminism” defined? Why do we need “new
critical vocabularies” (4) in this context?
Summarize the authors’ description of media and digital
cultures in the last two decades.
What is the authors’ methodological approach?
What are the three aspects that describe the popularity
of feminism nowadays?
A more concrete explanation of the method. Summarize.
Discuss the concept of “connection”.
Feminism informs the media narratives, and women’s sports
contribute to and mobilize feminism. Debate.
What is the meaning that the authors give to the expression
“telling stories differently”?
Do you think that “telling stories differently” can be politically
transformative?
How do the authors describe the dominant academic narrative
in their field?
Why do they call for a discussion of the complexities in
contemporary media culture?
The relationship between Politics of visibility and Political
struggle. Debate.
What do the authors call Economies of visibility?
If a feminist group becomes popular in the context of the
economies of visibility, is it still “feminist”, properly
speaking? Debate.
Is capitalism able to absorb all the counterdiscourses?
How would it affect feminism? Debate.
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