TV representation of the single woman in Nothing But Thirty: traditional and postfeminist discourses from social media responses.
While single women in their late twenties or thirties in urban China have become a notable social phenomenon and attracted scholarly discussion, few studies have discussed the postfeminist media culture surrounding this phenomenon, focusing on television representations and audience interpretations....
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 860 - 879 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2026
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