Feminist Erasures [electronic resource] : Challenging Backlash Culture /
Silva, K.editor.
Mendes, K.editor.
Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: (In)visible and (Ir)relevant: Setting a Context; Part I: Teaching Feminism; 2 CEOs and Office Hos: Notes from the Trenches of Our Women's Studies Classrooms; 3 Suture and Scars: Evidencing the Struggles of Academic Feminism; 4 Feminist Erasures: The Development of a Black Feminist Methodological Theory; Part II: Feminism in Popular Culture; 5 Illegible Rage: Performing Femininity in Manhattan Call Girl
6 Empowered Vulnerability?: A Feminist Response to the Ubiquity of Sexual Violence in the Pilots of Female-Fronted Teen Drama Series7 Against Conformity: Families, Respectability, and the Representation of Gender-Nonconforming Youth of Color in Gun Hill Road and Pariah; 8 Women, Gender, and the Financial Markets in Hollywood Films; 9 Gladiator in a Suit?: Scandal's Olivia Pope and the Post-Identity Regulation of Physical Agency; Part III: Becoming Mother; 10 Got Milk?: Motherhood, Breastfeeding, and (Re)domesticating Feminism; 11 Running Mother Ragged: Women and Labor in the Age of Telework
12 Infertility Blogging, Body, and the AvatarPart IV: Feminism/Activism; 13 SlutWalk, Feminism, and News; 14 A Critical Reading of SlutWalk in the News: Reproducing Postfeminism and Whiteness; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture.
Sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Communication.
Feminist theory.
Cultural studies.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Media Studies.
Feminism.
Cultural Studies.