Journal article
Female empowerment is being commercialized: online reception of girl crush trend among feminist K-pop fans
FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES, v 23(8), p4156
17 Nov 2023
Abstract
This paper critically analyses the newly emerging girl crush concept in the K-pop scene, exploring how this new claimed female-empowering trend interplays with K-pop fans' perception of feminism and empowerment. Discourse analysis reveals that K-pop fans perceive the girl crush concept as a highly commodified form of feminism that essentially safeguards the patriarchal status quo and underlying gender power relations of the K-pop industry. Although few fans celebrate this girl group concept as potentially empowering, several fans indulge in counter-discourses critically reflecting on the presence of internalized misogyny among K-pop fandoms while also calling for a need to embrace feminist values to achieve changes within the K-pop music industry.
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- Title
- Female empowerment is being commercialized: online reception of girl crush trend among feminist K-pop fans
- Publication Details
- FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES, v 23(8), p4156
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD; ABINGDON
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000899084300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85144176639
- Other Identifier
- 991021861276804721
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