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#fantastic19 @ysabelgerrard talking about how women's genres and popular cultures sit at the bottom of the Bourdiean cultural hierarchy. Victoria Cann (2015) calls this a 'devaluation of the feminine' and identifies how women's media are trivialised as "guilty pleasures".Permalink On Internet Archive
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#fantastic19 The 'turn to pleasure' in the 1970s is a research turn where (largely women) researchers started to take women's genres and entertainment-for-pleasure seriously in academic discourse.On Internet Archive
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#fantastic19 The media reaction to the Manchester Arena attack provides a useful contrast to the usual derogatory references to 'fangirls' which has conceptual links with 'hysteria'.Permalink On Internet Archive
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#fantastic19 Gerrard was shocked to discover the extent of the secrecy and online identity manipulation among fans of teen TV dramas to avoid the widespread derision of fangirls and young women fans.Permalink On Internet Archive