Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia
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- ISBN 9781032659695
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia: From Celebrities to Anti-war Activists examines how Russian discourses on feminism have been informed by fast-evolving, cross-border, transcultural, and trans-local media flows, which have both diversified and fragmented the spectrum of feminism in the region.
The book takes a multidisciplinary approch to Russian feminisms, including an examination of Russian politics and culture, the ideology of glamour, celebrity culture, and mass media, with a particular focus on online social networks - using a set of case studies involving high-profile feminist media personalities, social media influencers, and micro-celebrities appropriating feminist agenda, and online grassroot responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia: From Celebrities to Anti-war Activists will be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students of media and communication, area, international relations, gender, and cultural studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Saara Ratilainen is a University Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland. She is the PI of the Research Council of Finland funded project Mediated Feminism(s) in Contemporary Russia (FEMCORUS 2021–2025). Her field of expertise covers Russian-language media and cultural studies, especially digital networks, gender, and feminist studies. She has published numerous articles and chapters for journals and collective volumes.
Galina Miazhevich is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media, and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. Galina completed a 2-year Arts and Humanities Rsearch Council-funded project on media representation of non-heteronormative sexualities in Russia (2018–2020). Galina has an extensive publication record in the field of media, culture, and area studies.
Daniil Zhaivoronok is a doctoral student at Tampere University, Finland, and a researcher in the project Mediated feminism(s) in Contemporary Russia (FEMCORUS, 2021–2025). His academic interests centre on the interactions between feminist politics and the hybrid media environment in Russia.
Eeva Kuikka is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, Finland, specialising in indigenous cultures and non-Russian ethnicities in the Russian Federation from a post-colonial point of view. Dr. Kuikka’s doctoral research addressed human-animal relations in indigenous literatures of the Soviet North. A book based on her doctoral dissertation is forthcoming.
