Kimberly Killen

Kimberly Killen is a soon-to-be PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder in Political Science. She has a BA from Wellesley College and a MSc in Gender, Media and Culture from the London School of Economics. So, why not go back to school ... again?!

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By Kimberly Killen • 7 years ago

Who’s Failing Feminism? Media Narratives, Young Women and Hillary

Stop asking me why young women aren’t voting for Hillary. I don’t like the premise of the question. I don’t like how it constructs a narrative in which lack of support for Hillary among young women is indicative of something off. Something is wrong with Hillary, or something is wrong with young women. Either way, in this dilemmatic construction, one of these groups of women (we can enlarge “Hillary” to be representative of her supporters, in this instance) is acting badly – as women and feminists.
By Kimberly Killen • 11 years ago

A SYTYCB entry: So many ‘Years of the Woman’, so little time

In the last two decades, the media has become fond of a particular electoral frame – the “Year of the Woman”. It has been circulated in at least three elections – 1992, 2008, and 2010 – and is set to make a comeback this year, with the power being in the hands of women voters. However, the tagline “Year of the Woman” makes it sound like women are rolling up to Congress by the bus and taking over. This is clearly not the case. The original “Year of the Woman” in 1992 saw women’s numbers in the Senate triple – to, disappointingly enough, six – and, in 2010, the number of women in Congress actually dropped.

This frame bothers me ...

In the last two decades, the media has become fond of a particular electoral frame – the “Year of the Woman”. It has been circulated in at least three elections – 1992, 2008, and 2010 – and ...