Intersectional Intimacy - Identity Work of Racialized Women in Online Dating Cultures

Intersectional Intimacy: Identity Work of Racialized Women in Online Dating Cultures is the first book to examine both shared and divergent stories from those who identify as women with race-related experiences navigating online dating cultures, and to explore how their experience of intimate relationships is mediated by the apps.
While many women turn to dating apps in search of intimacies, their navigations are continuously mediated and challenged by hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexuality embedded in online dating cultures. This book traces the ongoing and layered processes through which racialized women develop their stories of online intimacies by making use of their identities and further cultivate their subjectivities. It also addresses the global dimensions of these practices, illustrating how global and local power structures intersect with personal experience, afforded by the popularity of dating apps, and how these readings change with their mobility.
Intersectional Intimacy will be an essential text for students of gender studies, sociology, and politics, as well as those interested in race, media studies, digital culture, and communications.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The paradox of dating apps 3. (Un)Doing gender 4. (Un)Doing race 5. (Un)Doing me 6. Conclusion

About the author

Jin Lee is Senior Research Fellow in Internet Studies at Curtin University, Australia. She is a media scholar, exploring the question of "How do people make their own lives within social media pop cultures?" She studies meanings and practices of media intimacies and visibility as mediated and forged through cultural artifacts across media.

Product details

• Authors: Jin (Curtin University Lee, Lee Jin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.12.2025
• EAN: 9781032709574
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270957-4
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; History, Media Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Humanities, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism