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dc.contributor.authorDobson, Amy
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18T08:00:27Z
dc.date.available2018-05-18T08:00:27Z
dc.date.created2018-05-18T00:23:16Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationDobson, A. 2014. Performative shamelessness on young women's social network sites: Shielding the self and resisting gender melancholia. Feminism and Psychology. 24 (1): pp. 97-114.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68002
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0959353513510651
dc.description.abstract

In this paper, I ask what the self-representations of young women on social network sites can tell us about the conditions and experience of inhabiting femininity in the digitally mediated post-feminist context. First, I outline four conditions of post-feminist girlhood that I suggest young women must navigate in the processes of subjectivity construction. I then describe some of the common kinds of performativity found on a small selection of social network site profiles owned by young Australian women. I suggest that a 'shameless' affect may be a necessary form of self-protection for these young women, operating in contexts that appear to require copious amounts, and intense forms, of self-display. The kind of 'shameless' affectations we can see on young women's social network site profiles may also be a way of resisting the dominant terms by which contemporary femininity is understood as normatively 'melancholic' or damaged.

dc.titlePerformative shamelessness on young women's social network sites: Shielding the self and resisting gender melancholia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume24
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage97
dcterms.source.endPage114
dcterms.source.issn0959-3535
dcterms.source.titleFeminism and Psychology
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI)
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