Cupcakes, pinterest, and ladyporn
Subtitle: feminized popular culture in the early twenty-first century
By: edited by Elana Levine
Series: Feminist media studies; Feminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780252039577; 9780252081088; 9780252097669
Subjects: Popular culture; Sex role; Women in popular culture; Feminism; Mass media and women
Description: Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century. Elana Levine brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Grey to Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, the feminine.The imperative of productivity currently permeating feminized pop culture has created a generation of texts that speak as much to women's roles as public and private workers as to an impulse for fantasy or escape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.