17 Citations
The Fourth Wave in Audiovisual Content: A True Achievement of Feminism?
- 2021
Sociology
Audiovisual content transmits feminist messages and the identities of women and girls. There has been a revitalization of feminism, but are we facing a true achievement of critical and intersectional…
The digital lives of Muslim sportswomen: Navigating the spaces of sport, culture, and social media
- 2019
Sociology
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Female Animal Characters in Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books: A Misogynistic Portrayal
- 2024
Sociology
Children’s literature introduces children to the world, stimulates their imagination, and mirrors the society they live in by reproducing its social rules and accepted norms. This is especially true…
Representation of Women Empowerment in Arab TV Commercials: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis
- 2023
Sociology
Representation of gender has a long history of stereotyped portrayal where the female gender is traditionally confined to a limited set of gender roles and is often excluded from the male world.…
The lonely heroine: portrayal of women scientists in films
- 2022
Sociology
ABSTRACT Popular films can influence the public’s image of women scientists and (re)shape social stereotypes. In this study, we examined how women scientists were portrayed in films in the context of…
Superheroines and Sexism: Female Representation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- 2021
Sociology
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time and since the premiere of Iron Man in 2008, it has risen to fame as a source of science-fiction…
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication
- 2020
Sociology
The centrality of whiteness and of White-on-White gay male relationships [is] a sense-making norm that fuels the logic by which we [people of color] ascribe value in the gay marketplace of desire.…
The Future Is Female (and Behavior Analysis): A Behavioral Account of Sexism and How Behavior Analysis Is Simultaneously Part of the Problem and Solution
- 2019
Psychology, Sociology
A behavioral account of sexism is provided, particularly in the field of behavior analysis, which has not adequately studied sexism and its subtle topographies despite sexism being a long-existing behavioral phenomenon.
The Fourth Wave of Feminism and the Lack of Social Realism in Cyberspace
- 2019
Sociology
Recent years have witnessed a surge in research on the impact of the cyberspace on social movements. The feminist movement has built a vocal platform online which attempts to underscore sexual…
Intersectionality in the Contemporary Women’s Marches: Possibilities for Social Change
- 2019
Sociology
The Women’s Marches of January 2017 and 2018 were some of the largest mass demonstrations in history. They represent an important stage in the American feminist movement in its current iteration.…