Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity

Joanna McIntyre is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Her research intersects celebrity studies, trans studies, and queer studies. She is co-editor of Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture (Routledge, 2021), and publishes in leading journals, including Journal of Children and Media, Feminist Media Studies, Celebrity Studies Journal, and The European Journal of Cultural Studies.Anthea Taylor is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published widely in feminist celebrity studies, including the first monograph on celebrity feminism, Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (2016), and most recently Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive (Routledge, 2025).

• Introduction: Gender and celebrity studies in a post-#MeToo world Joanna McIntyre and Anthea Taylor Part 1: Historicising Celebrity 1. Unseemly affects: gender, celebrity, and the policing of fame hunger Lorraine York 2. Queens of song: Opera divas and women’s celebrity in Australia Karen Fox 3. Posthumous celebrity feminism: collective memory, “legacy”, and the obituaries of Betty Friedan and Helen Gurley Brown Anthea Taylor 4. Queer genius: Alison Bechdel’s long-term celebrity Lee Wallace 5. Before “the transgender tipping point”: Miriam Rivera, Nadia Almada, reality TV and trans celebrity in the twenty-first century Joanna McInytre and L.A. Miller Part 2: Manufacturing Celebrity 6. “Reality reckoning”?: feminised cultural labour and the ‘grey zones’ of reality television work Eleanor Kilroy, Helen Wood and Jilly Boyce Kay 7. On (not) becoming the “fairy goddess”: gendered cruel optimism and the affective archive of Chinese (micro)celebrity Li Ziqi Dongyang Li 8. Symbolic interest, and the construction and gatekeeping of celebrity narratives on the awards circuit Robert Boucaut 9. Marilyn Monroe™: authorisation and the problematic politics of star narrative, sex aids, biopics, and borrowed dresses Ellen Wright 10. A celebrity’s resistance against the “civil” social imaginary: the 2021 Pori Moni saga and competing gendered media discourses in Bangladesh Harisur Rahman and Shams Bin Quader Part 3: Representing Celebrity 11. (Re)framing Britney Spears: the celebrity bimbo in the #MeToo era Harriet Fletcher 12. The coming-of-age of Amandla Stenberg: navigating bi-racial girl child stardom, Hollywood, and US society Katherine Whitehurst 13. Rendering the Indigenous body legible: Temuera Morrison, celebrity, and Māori masculinities Holly Randall-Moon 14. We need to talk about Kevin: coming out as reputation management in the era of #MeToo Anita Brady 15. From mother to monarch: RuPaul, US universalism, and the rise of a global drag empire Violet Thompson Part 4: Embodying Celebrity 16. “Gray Pride”: feminism, age, embodiment, and the semiotic circuits of celebrity Brenda Weber 17. The child actress in old age: the enduring intertextual influence of The Bad Seed on child star Patty McCormack’s silvering celebrity Craig Martin 18. Celebrity and fatness: crafting an authentic persona between idolisation and marginalisation Lene Bull-Christianson 19. Jamie Dornan: negotiating masculine beauty, actorly craft, and regional authenticity Anthony McIntyre Part 5: Politicising Celebrity 20. Epistemology of a glass closet: Anson Lo’s queer stardom and the politics of ambiguity in the post-ELAB Hong Kong Mei Ting Li 21. “Hollywood’s Mr Politics”: George Clooney, film stardom, and liberal masculinity in post-9/11 USA Joshua Gulam 22. Emerging celebrity feminisms in Spain: the case of Leticia Dolera Abigail Loxham 23. The intellectual celebrity of Jordan Peterson: performing authority, emotions, and masculinity Mikkel Bækby Johansen 24. Digital celebrity feminist activism in Pakistan: analysing Qandeel Baloch and Meesha Shafi Amna Nasir Part 6: Dis/Empowering Celebrity 25. Yass, camp is political! Randy Rainbow’s queer microcelebrity and “sass-veillance” Niall Brennan 26. “A real sharp learning curve”: experiences of going viral and becoming an accidental celebrity feminist Angela Towers 27. Nymphia Wind, imperial drag, and queer sinophone celebrity crossovers Ben Aslinger 28. “I’m so gay”: Kristen Stewart’s adapted tomboyism and feminist reclaiming of visibility Shirley Xue Yang 29. Michelle Yeoh and the ageing discourse of Asian women celebrities Dorothy Lau 30. Gender and the cultural politics of the celebrity selfie Milly Williamson Part 7: Researching Celebrity 31. Anna Ford, “Women in Media” and celebrity/feminism in UK second-wave feminism Hannah Hamad 32. “She was never pretty anyway”: women celebrities and visibilities of ageing Anne Jerslev 33. “Cry only if you’re famous”: celebrity vulnerability and “ordinary” producers on Instagram Rachel Faleatua 34. Interviewing queer television celebrities: methodological and practical reflections Damien John O’Meara 35. #EnginAkyürek: a Turkish actor’s global celebrity and women’s fan labour Carolina Acosta-Alzuru. Index