Feminist perspectives on Orange is the new black
Subtitle: thirteen critical essays
By: edited by April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781476663920
Subjects: Lesbianism on television; Orange is the new black (Television program); Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television
Description: "Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which it is based is popular course material at many universities"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: is orange the new black? / April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek; title: Chocolate and vanilla swirl, swi-irl": race and lesbian identity politics / Sarah E. Fryett; title: We will survive: race and gender-based trauma as cultural truth-telling / Kalima Y. Young; title: Jenji Kohan's trojan horse: subversive uses of whiteness / Katie Sullivan Barak; title: "You don't look full ... Asia": the invisible and ambiguous bodies of Chang and Soso / Minjeong Kim; title: Cleaning up your act: surveillance, queer sex and the imprisoned body / Yvonne Swartz Hammond; title: The transgender tipping point: the social death of Sophia Burset / Hilary Malatino; title: All in the (prison) family: genre mixing and queer representation / Kyra Hunting; title: Pennsatucky's teeth and the persistence of class / Susan Sered; title: Pleasure and power behind bars: resisting necropower with sexuality / Zoey K. Jones; title: Anatomy of a binge: abject intimacy and the televisual form / Anne Moore; title: "You don't feel like a freak anymore": representing disability madness and trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary / Lydia Brown; title: Piper Chapman's flexible accommodation of difference / H. Rakes; title: "Can't fix crazy": confronting able-mindedness / Sarah Gibbons.