Empowered

Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny

Sarah Banet-Weiser (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0168-3 (ISBN)

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Drawing on numerous examples from popular culture, Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multi-media platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns, showing how feminism is often met with a backlash of harassment, assault, and institutional neglect.

In Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multimedia platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns. Examining feminist discourses that emphasize self-confidence, body positivity, and individual achievement alongside violent misogynist phenomena such as revenge porn, toxic geek masculinity, and men's rights movements, Banet-Weiser traces how popular feminism and popular misogyny are co-constituted. From Black Girls Code and the Always #LikeAGirl campaign to GamerGate and the 2016 presidential election, Banet-Weiser shows how popular feminism is met with a misogynistic backlash of mass harassment, assault, and institutional neglect. In so doing, she contends that popular feminism's problematic commitment to visibility limits its potential and collective power.

Sarah Banet-Weiser is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and author of Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship, also published by Duke University Press, and AuthenticTM: The Politics of Ambivalence in Brand Culture.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. The Funhouse Mirror 41
2. Shame: Love Yourself and Be Humiliated 65
3. Confidence: The Con Game 92
4. Competence: Girls Who Code and Boys Who Hate Them 129
Conclusion: Rage 171
Notes 187
References 193
Index 211

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	33 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0168-2 / 1478001682
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0168-3 / 9781478001683
Zustand	Neuware