The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity by Joanna Mcintyre

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity by Joanna Mcintyre

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity offers the first comprehensive global study of how gender shapes celebrity culture across diverse contexts and media landscapes.

Bringing together 37 original chapters from leading and emerging scholars worldwide, this volume transforms celebrity studies by centring gender to expand cultural, geopolitical, and methodological boundaries. Through case studies spanning Turkey to Hollywood and Bangladesh to Spain, contributors explore issues such as queer stardom in Hong Kong, feminist digital activism in Pakistan, Indigenous celebrity, and China’s 'traffic idols'. Employing methodologies, including discourse analysis, digital ethnography, archival research, and qualitative interviews, the Companion purposefully decentres Western perspectives, tracing localised and transnational circuits of fame while addressing historical and contemporary intersections of gender and celebrity.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity is ideal for scholars, students, and researchers in gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology, and related fields seeking fresh insights into global celebrity cultures and their political and social implications.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Joanna McIntyre is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Her research brings together celebrity, queer, and trans studies, with a particular focus on digital media and Australian screen cultures. She is co-editor of Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture (2021, with Anthea Taylor) and Lead Chief Investigator on multiple funded projects, with work regularly appearing in journals including Celebrity Studies and European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Anthea Taylor is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published widely in feminist celebrity studies, including the first monograph on celebrity feminism, Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (2016), and most recently Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive (2025).