Making Feminist Media

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Publication Year:
2016

ISBN-13: 9781771121019

<p><i>Making Feminist Media </i>provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including<i> BUST</i>, <i>Bitch</i>, <i>HUES</i>, <i>Venus Zine</i>, and <i>Rockrgrl</i>—that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking their successes and failures, this book provides insight into the politics of feminism’s recent past.</p><p><i>Making Feminist Media</i> brings together interviews with magazine editors, research from zine archives, and analysis of the advertising, articles, editorials, and letters to the editor found in third-wave feminist magazines. It situates these publications within the long history of feminist publishing in the United States and Canada and argues that third-wave feminist magazines share important continuities and breaks with their historical forerunners. These publishing lineages challenge the still-dominant—and hotly contested— wave metaphor categorization of feminist culture.</p><p> The stories, struggles, and strategies of these magazines not only represent contemporary feminism, they create and shape feminist cultures. The publications provide a feminist counter-public sphere in which the competing interests of editors, writers, readers, and advertisers can interact. <i>Making Feminist Media</i> argues that reading feminist magazines is far more than the consumption of information or entertainment: it is a profoundly intimate and political activity that shapes how readers understand themselves and each other as feminist thinkers.</p>