Written by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the essays here range across different media forms, genres and cultural practices, to explore how the visibility of weddings changes and adapts across a new cultural and social landscape.
Jilly Boyce Kay is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Her forthcoming book Gender, Media and Voice focusses on the mediation of women's voices and the concept of "communicative injustice". She has also published on mediated feminist anger, newspaper representations of the women's suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland, reality television, and women's television histories. She is Editor of the Cultural Commons section in the European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Melanie Kennedy is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture. Her research examines media representations of gendered, age-defined, classed, raced identities (in particular tweens, young female celebrities, and teenage mothers), and the popular culture that addresses these subjects. She is the Associate Editor of Commentary and Criticism for Feminist Media Studies (Routledge).
Helen Wood is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at at Lancaster University. She has published widely on television, class and audiences, including the books Talking with Television and Reacting to Reality Television, and the edited volume Television for Women: New Directions (Routledge 2012). She is also Editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies.
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List of Contributors
Abstracts
Something Old, Something New: The Gender Politics of the Wedding Spectacle
Jilly Boyce Kay, Melanie Kennedy and Helen Wood
Deborah Jermyn
Jilly Boyce Kay and Kajal Nisha Patel
Suzanne Leonard
Natasha Whiteman and Helen Wood
Laura Clancy
Kate McNicholas Smith
Feyza Akinerdem
Jenny Thatcher
Michael Lovelock
Melanie Kennedy
Brenda R. Weber
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