{"product_id":"mediating-australian-feminism-re-reading-the-first-stone-media-event-9783039110995","title":"Mediating Australian Feminism: Re-reading the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Garner’s \u003ci\u003eThe First Stone\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), a ‘non-fictional’ book about a sexual harassment case at a University of Melbourne residential college, captured and maintained the Australian media’s attention in an unprecedented way. Its publication sparked extensive media commentary regarding an alleged generational war within Australian feminism. While talkback radio, current affairs television, and cultural events such as literary festivals and forums all took part in this heated public contest over the meanings of feminism, this book reconsiders how the debate played out in the Australian print media. Analysing texts as diverse as feature articles and opinion pieces, non-fiction by young feminists, letters to the editor, celebrity feminist profiles and articles, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe First Stone\u003c\/i\u003e itself, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of this debate as a ‘media event’. Refusing to adopt either a condemnatory or celebratory approach to the complex relationship between feminism and media culture, it argues that the \u003ci\u003eFirst Stone\u003c\/i\u003e media event is indicative of the limitations and the opportunities proffered by the mediatisation of contemporary feminism. \u003ci\u003eMediating Australian Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e provides insights that will be valuable to scholars interested in feminism, journalism and news culture, literary reception, and the politics of media representation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Bestselling feminism: The textual politics of \u003ci\u003eThe First Stone \u003c\/i\u003e– Throwing stones: \u003ci\u003eThe First Stone \u003c\/i\u003eenters public discourse – ‘Voices above others’: Celebrity feminism in Australia – Dear Editor: Readers writing the media event – Mothers versus daughters: Feminism, history and conflict – The media event refigured.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043728228695,"sku":"9783039110995","price":40.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039110995.jpg?v=1750959255","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediating-australian-feminism-re-reading-the-first-stone-media-event-9783039110995","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}