The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-26931-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Companions to Gender

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity offers the first comprehensive global study of how gender shapes celebrity culture across diverse contexts and media landscapes.

Bringing together thirty-five original chapters from leading and emerging scholars worldwide, this volume transforms celebrity studies by centring gender to expand cultural, geopolitical, and methodological boundaries. Through case studies spanning Turkey to Hollywood and Bangladesh to Spain, contributors explore issues such as queer stardom in Hong Kong, feminist digital activism in Pakistan, Indigenous celebrity, and China’s 'traffic idols'. Employing methodologies including discourse analysis, digital ethnography, archival research, and qualitative interviews, the Companion purposefully decentres Western perspectives, tracing localised and transnational circuits of fame while addressing historical and contemporary intersections of gender and celebrity.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity is ideal for scholars, students, and researchers in gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology, and related fields seeking fresh insights into global celebrity cultures and their political and social implications.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

McIntyre, Joanna

Taylor, Anthea

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Gender and celebrity studies in a post-#MeToo world Joanna McIntyre and Anthea Taylor  Part 1: Historicising Celebrity  1. Unseemly affects: gender, celebrity, and the policing of fame hunger Lorraine York  2. Queens of song: Opera divas and women’s celebrity in Australia Karen Fox  3. Posthumous celebrity feminism: collective memory, “legacy”, and the obituaries of Betty Friedan and Helen Gurley Brown Anthea Taylor  4. Queer genius: Alison Bechdel’s long-term celebrity Lee Wallace  5. Before “the transgender tipping point”: Miriam Rivera, Nadia Almada, reality TV and trans celebrity in the twenty-first century Joanna McInytre and L.A. Miller  Part 2: Manufacturing Celebrity  6. “Reality reckoning”?: feminised cultural labour and the ‘grey zones’ of reality television work Eleanor Kilroy, Helen Wood and Jilly Boyce Kay  7. On (not) becoming the “fairy goddess”: gendered cruel optimism and the affective archive of Chinese (micro)celebrity Li Ziqi Dongyang Li  8. Symbolic interest, and the construction and gatekeeping of celebrity narratives on the awards circuit Robert Boucaut  9. Marilyn Monroe™: authorisation and the problematic politics of star narrative, sex aids, biopics, and borrowed dresses Ellen Wright  10. A celebrity’s resistance against the “civil” social imaginary: the 2021 Pori Moni saga and competing gendered media discourses in Bangladesh Harisur Rahman and Shams Bin Quader  Part 3: Representing Celebrity  11. (Re)framing Britney Spears: the celebrity bimbo in the #MeToo era Harriet Fletcher  12. The coming-of-age of Amandla Stenberg: navigating bi-racial girl child stardom, Hollywood, and US society Katherine Whitehurst  13. Rendering the Indigenous body legible: Temuera Morrison, celebrity, and Maori masculinities Holly Randall-Moon  14. We need to talk about Kevin: coming out as reputation management in the era of #MeToo Anita Brady  15. From mother to monarch: RuPaul, US universalism, and the rise of a global drag empire Violet Thompson  Part 4: Embodying Celebrity  16. “Gray Pride”: feminism, age, embodiment, and the semiotic circuits of celebrity Brenda Weber  17. The child actress in old age: the enduring intertextual influence of The Bad Seed on child star Patty McCormack’s silvering celebrity Craig Martin  18. Celebrity and fatness: crafting an authentic persona between idolisation and marginalisation Lene Bull-Christianson  19. Jamie Dornan: negotiating masculine beauty, actorly craft, and regional authenticity Anthony McIntyre  Part 5: Politicising Celebrity  20. Epistemology of a glass closet: Anson Lo’s queer stardom and the politics of ambiguity in the post-ELAB Hong Kong Mei Ting Li  21. “Hollywood’s Mr Politics”: George Clooney, film stardom, and liberal masculinity in post-9/11 USA Joshua Gulam  22. Emerging celebrity feminisms in Spain: the case of Leticia Dolera Abigail Loxham  23. The intellectual celebrity of Jordan Peterson: performing authority, emotions, and masculinity Mikkel Bækby Johansen  24. Digital celebrity feminist activism in Pakistan: analysing Qandeel Baloch and Meesha Shafi Amna Nasir  Part 6: Dis/Empowering Celebrity  25. Yass, camp is political! Randy Rainbow’s queer microcelebrity and “sass-veillance” Niall Brennan  26. “A real sharp learning curve”: experiences of going viral and becoming an accidental celebrity feminist Angela Towers  27. Nymphia Wind, imperial drag, and queer sinophone celebrity crossovers Ben Aslinger  28. “I’m so gay”: Kristen Stewart’s adapted tomboyism and feminist reclaiming of visibility Shirley Xue Yang  29. Michelle Yeoh and the ageing discourse of Asian women celebrities Dorothy Lau  30. Gender and the cultural politics of the celebrity selfie Milly Williamson  Part 7: Researching Celebrity  31. Anna Ford, “Women in Media” and celebrity/feminism in UK second-wave feminism Hannah Hamad  32. “She was never pretty anyway”: women celebrities and visibilities of ageing Anne Jerslev  33. “Cry only if you’re famous”: celebrity vulnerability and “ordinary” producers on Instagram Rachel Faleatua  34. Interviewing queer television celebrities: methodological and practical reflections Damien John O’Meara  35. #EnginAkyürek: a Turkish actor’s global celebrity and women’s fan labour Carolina Acosta-Alzuru.  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna McIntyre is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Her research intersects celebrity studies, trans studies, and queer studies. She is co-editor of Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture (Routledge, 2021), and publishes in leading journals, including Journal of Children and Media, Feminist Media Studies, Celebrity Studies Journal, and The European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Anthea Taylor is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published widely in feminist celebrity studies, including the first monograph on celebrity feminism, Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (2016), and most recently Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive (Routledge, 2025).