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1 online resource. |
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Feminist media studies |
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Feminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)
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Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I PASSIONS -- 1. Fifty Shades of Postfeminism: Contextualizing Readers' Reflections on the Erotic Romance Series / Melissa A. Click -- 2. ABC's Scandal and Black Women's Fandom / Kristen J. Warner -- 3. Television for All Women? Watching Lifetime's Devious Maids / Julian Baez -- 4. Women, Gossip, and Celebrity Online: Celebrity Gossip Blogs as Feminized Popular Culture / Erin A. Meyers -- pt. II BODIES -- 5. Mothers, Fathers, and the Pregnancy App Experience: Designing with Expectant Users in Mind / Barbara L. Ley -- 6. Fashioning Feminine Fandom: Fashion Blogging and the Expression of Mediated Identity / Kyra Hunting -- 7. Women's Nail Polish Blogging and Femininity: "The girliest you will ever see me" / Michele White -- 8. Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance All Night! Mediated Audiences and Black Women's Spirituality / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade -- pt. III LABORS -- 9. Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit / Suzanne Ferriss. |
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10. After Ever After: Bethenny Frankel, Self-Branding, and the "New Intimacy of Work" / Diane Negra -- 11. Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Fame-Work and the Production of Entrepreneurial Sisterhood / Alice Leppert -- 12. Pinning Happiness: Affect, Social Media, and the Work of Mothers / Emily Olivers Yochim -- 13. Sweet Sisterhood: Cupcakes as Sites of Feminized Consumption and Production / Elizabeth Nathanson. |
| Summary |
"Levine has assembled a comprehensive set of smart, accessible, and interesting essays that truly capture ̀feminized' popular culture in the early twenty-first century United States. This will be the definitive volume on ̀post-feminist' popular cultural productions for some time to come."--Rebecca Wanzo. |
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Author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling. |
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"Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn offers a concise, engaged, and fascinating set of analyses on things feminine, female, and feminist in the context of popular media culture. If you've ever wondered how new media forms like Twitter and Facebook have bigger implications for gender relations, this book is for you."--Brenda R. Weber. |
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Author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity. |
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"In a provocative return to a topic dominant in early feminist media and cultural studies, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn helps us to understand better the pleasures and politics of feminine popular culture at a time when its creators and consumers are negotiating both feminist and postfeminist sensibilities."--Mary Celeste Kearney. |
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Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century. |
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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. As these essays show, 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. |
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Incisive and compelling, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn sheds new light on contemporary women's engagement with an array of media forms in the context of postfeminist culture and neoliberalism. --Book Jacket. |
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Sex role.
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Popular culture.
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Feminism.
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Women in popular culture.
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Mass media and women.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Mass media and women. (OCoLC)fst01011380
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Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Women in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01177953
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| Added Author |
Levine, Elana, 1970-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cupcakes, pinterest, and ladyporn. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015] 9780252039577 (DLC) 2015004609 (OCoLC)904335791 |
| ISBN |
0252097661 (electronic bk.) |
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9780252097669 (electronic bk.) |
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