Misogyny across Global Media

Maria B. Marron is professor of journalism and mass communications in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

• PrefaceChapter 1: #WhatNext: Political Implications of the #MeToo Campaign AftermathBernadette Ann BowenChapter 2: From Sexual Explicitness to Invisibility in Resistance Art: Coloniality, Rape Culture, and TechnologyChloe S. GeorasChapter 3: The Artists, the Institutions, and the Accusations: The #MeToo Movement ant the ArtWorldBecky BeamerChapter 4: Women as ‘Sites of Gendered Politics’: Misogyny of Religions in Armed ConflictTamanna M. ShahChapter 5: Misogyny and Philogyny in Music: Shakira, Rihanna, and MadonnaAli Kumael Rizvi and Wajiha Raza RizviChapter 6: “The R in R&B”: Rape, Race, and Representation in Surviving R. KellyAdelina Mbinjama-Gamatham, Thabo Ramphobole, and Nancy MorkelChapter 7: Media Coverage of the Misogynistic and Controversial Child Marriage Restraint Act (2017) in BangladeshMasudul BiswasChapter 8: Misogyny and Social Ethics: Responses in Vedic and Other TextsNikhil MoroChapter 9: Mitigating Misogyny in India: Theorizing Digital-Age Feminist Activism

Focusing on different media (music, film, social media) in diverse regions of the world – from the U.S. and the U.K. to Turkey, India, Kenya, and Zimbabwe – Misogyny across Global Media is a welcome addition to the growing research and debates in the gender and media field on the sexualization and objectification of women within popular culture in the digital age. Scholars in this timely edition engage with a range of topics, from rape culture and technology, misogyny, Madonna and hip-hop, feminist digital activism and hate speech to the #MeToo movement in India and the US. A must read!