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Schmeichel, Mardi; Kerr, Stacey; Linder, Chris – Gender and Education, 2020
This article describes a study of selfies posted on Instagram by a group of predominantly white, college women at a large public university in the US South. Selfies are used as data to explore how performances of traditional femininity are legitimated, authorized, and reinscribed through photo-posting practices. The authors argue that these…
Descriptors: Photography, Feminism, Females, Femininity
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Dubin, Steven C. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 1995
Discusses the reaction of feminist students at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) to a photograph, "Heaven and Hell" (A. Serrano), on the cover of the book "Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions" (S. Dubin). Their position that the photograph promotes violence toward women is one interpretation; another is that it…
Descriptors: Activism, Aesthetic Values, Art Criticism, College Students