Given feminism's explicit remit over gender politics, it would be easy to point to every feminist media scholar of the past century as having an implicit standpoint toward media politics, whether it be around issues of representation, institutional dynamics, or uses and interactions. Yet a genealogy of feminist scholars who explicitly address media law and policy—the study of media and governance—well, that's a rarer breed. The governance guys tend to flock together, flapping their white papers and cooing in the strange undertones of technocratic discourses. Women who historically distinguished themselves in the field tended to fly alongside, and were not feminist per se in their scholarship.
Which raises the question, What are feminist studies of media governance? Surely among the normative theories of the liberal state, civil society, information, and the public sphere, there have been approaches that debunk the universal subject while attending to gender as one of the...
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