Intersectional Intimacy

Identity Work of Racialized Women in Online Dating Cultures
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70957-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media

Intersectional Intimacy: Identity Work of Racialized Women in Online Dating Cultures is the first book to examine both shared and divergent stories from those who identify as women with race-related experiences navigating online dating cultures, and to explore how their experience of intimate relationships is mediated by the apps.

While many women turn to dating apps in search of intimacies, their navigations are continuously mediated and challenged by hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexuality embedded in online dating cultures. This book traces the ongoing and layered processes through which racialized women develop their stories of online intimacies by making use of their identities and further cultivate their subjectivities. It also addresses the global dimensions of these practices, illustrating how global and local power structures intersect with personal experience, afforded by the popularity of dating apps, and how these readings change with their mobility.

Intersectional Intimacy will be an essential text for students of Gender Studies, Sociology, and Politics, as well as those interested in Race, Media Studies, Digital Culture, and Communications.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Jin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The paradox of dating apps 3. (Un)Doing gender  4. (Un)Doing race 5. (Un)Doing me 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jin Lee is Senior Research Fellow in Internet Studies at Curtin University, Australia. She is a media scholar, exploring the question of “How do people make their own lives within social media pop cultures?” She studies meanings and practices of media intimacies and visibility as mediated and forged through cultural artefacts across media.