Twenty-first Century Feminism

Claire Nally, University of Northumbria, UKAngela Smith, University of Sunderland, UKJennifer Anyan, Southampton Solent University, UK Anne Burns, Loughborough University School of Art, UKLeslie Heywood, State University of New York, USAMakiko Iseri, University of Sussex, UKKaren Sturgeon-Dodsworth, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKRosie White, Northumbria University, UK

• 1. Introduction; Angela Smith 2. 'Strange Borrowing': Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism And The 'Cruelly Optimistic' Gendered Bodies In Crossfit, Leslie Heywood 3. Big Sister TV: Bossiness, Bullying And Banter In Early Twenty-First Century Make-Over Television, Angela Smith 4. Boredom And Reinvention For The Female Gaze Within Personal Fashion Blogs, Jennifer Anyan 5. 'In Full View': Involuntary Porn And The Post-Feminist Rhetoric Of Choice, Anne Burns 6. Miranda And Miranda: Comedy, Femininity And Performance, Rosie White 7. Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii In Japanese Girls' Culture, Makiko Iseri 8. Strange Case Of Woman's Vanishing Agency And Other Neo Victorian Tales Of Obfuscation And Effacement, Karen Sturgeon-Dodsworth