Up for debate: remediating feminist media activism in Canada. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thrift, Samantha C.
• Is Part Of: Continuum. Volume 32:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 29
• Page End: 41
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Motion pictures -- Australia -- Periodicals; Broadcasting -- Australia -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2018.1404673
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1030-4312

Abstract

Abstract: This analysis examines activists' remediation of a feminist media event, the 1984 televised leadership debate on women's issues, during the 2015 Canadian federal election. Activists framed the 1984 event in campaign materials in commemorative terms, mobilizing a distinctly feminist cultural memory of the nation. Remediating the feminist past produced a discursive disruption of postfeminist constructions of the nation as already gender equal in news coverage of Up for Debate. In this way, women's issues debates act as a barometer of neoliberal entrenchment in Canada.