The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism examines the strange confluence between academic feminism, and feminism’s other life as a concrete, global political movement. Over 50 original essays address the sociopolitical and the interdisciplinary academic dimensions of contemporary feminism, pointing to new ways its various components can be thought of in collaboration and co-dependence. The Handbook provides an innovative set of categories that cross-cut traditional modes of organizing, thinking and writing about feminist theory and activism: modes of knowledge and disciplinarity; modes of experience; feminist codes and tools; mediation and entertainment.

Tasha Oren is Associate Professor at the Film and Media Studies Program and the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance at Tufts University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she directed the Film, Media and Digital Studies Program. Oren’s books and collections include Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television, Global Currents: Media and Technology Now, East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, Global Asian American Cultures and Global Television Formats – Understanding Television Across Borders and the forthcoming Food TV: On Eating Media.

Andrea Press is currently William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology. A founding Chair of the Department of Media Studies and Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival, Press has authored several books, including Women Watching Television, Speaking of Abortion, The New Media Environment, Media and Class, Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age, The New Feminist Television Studies, and the forthcoming Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. She is incoming Chair of the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association.