Pain Generation
Subtitle: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781479808342
Subjects: Commerce
Description: "This book troubles the phenomenon of feminists turning to social media to respond to and enact the political potential of pain inflicted in the acts of sexual harassment, sexual violence, and sexual abuse. Anchoring its analysis in theories and criticisms of neoliberal feminism, this book illustrates the complexity of how in using digital platforms that are governed by neoliberal logic, feminists take on a "neoliberal self(ie) gaze" in their social media activism, potentially undercutting their work toward social justice"--