Feminism and Media in the Post-feminist Era

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1. See Bazelon (2010). It is worth noting that Bazelon is a progressive and often feminist journalist, writing in a progressive and often feminist magazine. Yet still even she wonders what all the fuss is about, and why the harassers have been charged with such serious crimes; the tenor of her in-depth coverage is that Phoebe's tormenters used epithets we're all used to. She quotes one of the adults involved as questioning even the “guilt” of the accused, or even the presence of bullying: “you can call it bullying … But to the other kids, Phoebe was the one with the power. She was attracting guys away from relationships.” The implication? Phoebe was pretty and attracted male sexual attention: why shouldn't we understand the desire to punish her?

2. See Armstrong, England and Fogarty (2010) on the “pleasure gap” between men and women in the achievement of orgasm in “hook up” sex. See also Armstrong, Hamilton and England (2010).

3. See Andrea L. Press (2010).

4. See Amanda Lotz (2006), and also Jane Arthurs (2003) and Sue Thornham (2007).

5. See Press (2010).

6. See Dicker and Piepmeier (2003) and Reger (2005) on second-wave feminism.