Surveillance is a feminist issue
This chapter argues that surveillance is a feminist issue and aims to explore the emerging field of feminist surveillance studies and highlights research within feminist media studies that may contribute to this field but is not necessarily recognized as surveillance studies. It discusses the top-down theorizations of surveillance in order to open up questions about peer surveillance and self-surveillance and describes a conceptual architecture to show the connections between postfeminist culture and surveillance. The chapter also explores the links between neoliberalism and new practices of looking, which Mark Hayward dubs a “neoliberal optics.” It also argues that digital and media cultures and post-feminist modalities of subjecthood are coming together to produce a novel and extraordinarily powerful regulatory gaze on women. The chapter offers a brief introduction to the study of surveillance, including emerging work in feminist surveillance studies, and will then introduce contemporary understandings of neoliberalism and postfeminism.
Item Type | Book Section |
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"This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism on 16 May 2019, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Contemporary-Feminism/Oren-Press/p/book/9781138845114. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way." |
Departments, Centres and Research Units | Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE) |
Date Deposited | 25 Sep 2024 12:14 |
Last Modified | 25 Sep 2024 15:42 |