Representing and manufacturing gender: A joint session between GEN and ESN - OCP

Hello everyone,

As the Co-Chair of the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN), I am thrilled to welcome all of you to OCP23's ESN sessions. This is a great opportunity for us to share our research, learn from others and build connections across the globe.

Your participation is what truly makes these online sessions meaningful. Therefore, I encourage each one of you not only to read and absorb the plethora of information in these papers but also actively contribute your thoughts, ideas, and feedback via comments.

Looking forward to insightful discussions and valuable interactions over the course of OCP23.

Best Regards,
Sibo Chen
Toronto Metropolitan University
Co-Chair, ESN

Hi everyone,
We look forward to your comments on the papers in this very important session. Please read and comment on at least one paper soon. Please also check comments on your paper and respond to the queries. We hope you may check comments off and on till September 12.
All the best,
Wajiha Raza Rizvi
Co-Chair
Gender and Communication Section

Dear authors
I would like to thank you all for touching upon very important issues in the post-Covid era while the stereotypes and discrimination are still part of our lives, and they keep appearing in various forms, to include, what our scholars call, “femvertsing campaigns”, “Real Beauty”, and “Shine Strong” serving the advertising industry (GEN/ESN IAMCR 2023). The best part, our scholars do not wish to internalize but challenge “the dominant feminist discourses” and “characteristics of female roles” in media. We highly appreciate Mthobeli Ngcongo from University of the Free State, Nancy Gakahu from University of Leeds, Josie Gleave and Lisa Waller from RMIT Universit, Yiran Ding Renmin from University of China, Deya Xu from East China Normal University, Tingting Liu from Jinan University, Johanna Hoess from University of Cape Town Centre for Film and Media, and Siqi Fan from Communication University of China studied important issues on manufacturing gender, masculine self-representations in USA and Africa, teamwork, sexual abuse and interplay among communication, gender and culture in Kenya, China, Australia and Germany. Let’s keep our efforts going and actively participate in this process by giving feedback to each other.

Thank you for these engaging and well researched papers. There has been some quite original and timely work being done here, a lot of which is under-researched and to which your research offers valuable contributions. I have placed my comments and suggestions under each of the papers.