‘But then feminism goes out the window!’: exploring teenage girls’ critical response to celebrity feminism

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^1. Interviews with teenage feminist bloggers are part of an ethnographic research project exploring the practices of eight US-based feminist girl bloggers conducted by Keller (see Keller forthcoming 2015). Interviews with participants in high school feminist clubs were conducted by Ringrose as part of a research project entitled ‘Feminism in Schools: Mapping Impact in Practice’ funded by Cardiff University. The research involved semi-structured focus group interviews and audio and visually recorded workshops with 45 young people, as well as individual interviews with teachers from six secondary schools in England and Wales. This interview is with five teen girls attending a mixed, fee-paying, performing arts school in central London.

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Jessalynn Keller

Jessalynn Keller is a lecturer in New Media at Middlesex University, London, UK. Her book Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age is forthcoming (Routledge, 2015). Jessalynn has also published work in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Information, Communication and Society, and Women’s Studies International Forum.

Jessica Ringrose

Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK. Her books include Post-feminist Education? Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling (Routledge, 2012), Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education (Routledge, 2011, edited), Deleuze and Research Methodologies (Edinburgh University Press, 2013, co-edited with Rebecca Coleman), and Children, Sexuality and ‘Sexualisation’ (Palgrave, forthcoming, co-edited with Emma Renold and Danielle Egan).