Helene A. Shugart

TL;DR: This paper argued that homosexuality is not only recoded and normalized in these representations as consistent with privileged male heterosexuality but is articulated as extending heterosexual male privilege, and that blatant sexism is reinvented and legitimized, and gay male identity simultane...

TL;DR: This article explored how the sensibilities of third-wave feminism are appropriated by and in the context of post-modern media such that they are commodified, reinscribed, and sold to audiences in an hegemonic fashion.

TL;DR: This paper assess the media coverage of the 1999 US women's soccer team and argue that these athletes are gendered by the media via sexualizing strategies that are subtler and more sophisticated than those of years past.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how gender is constructed and communicated by women popularly associated with and thus representative of Generation X in order to assess the nature of the relationship between Generation X and third-wave feminism and to chart the presence of feminism in contemporary popular culture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the rhetorical strategy of feminist appropriation is explored in order to assess its function as a counterhegemonic tactic, and an explication of the specific strategy employed in each case is advanced.