Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

This book examines how popular media re-constructs ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore how post-socialist women have engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation, and what the consequences are of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context. This book highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces, bridging research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today. It was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.