Embodying Normalcy

Women's Work in Neoliberal Times

Lucia Soriano (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

106 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1942-4 (ISBN)

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Embodying Normalcy: Women’s Work in Neoliberal Times examines how women in the United States do a type of unpaid work to embody the latest trends for the purpose of achieving success in neoliberal culture.

Embodying Normalcy: Women’s Work in Neoliberal Times calls attention to how women in the United States do a type of unpaid work to embody the latest trends for the purpose of achieving success in neoliberal culture. Using TLC reality shows, lifestyle and beauty influencers, Brazilian butt lift TikToks, and celebrities like Kim Kardashian as her archive, Lucia Soriano delivers four case studies that draw on gender studies, media studies, disability studies, and American studies to illustrate how the prerequisite for women to succeed in neoliberal culture calls for them to treat their bodies as projects that must be transformed every day.

Lucia Soriano is assistant professor in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and ethnic studies at Albion College.

Introduction

The Work of Embodying Normalcy

Chapter 1

The Transformative Spectacle of Embodying Normalcy in TLC’s Make-Over Reality Shows

Chapter 2

Consuming The Techniques of Normality and Beauty Influencers

Chapter 3

Normative Motherhood: Serving The Nation Through Entrepreneurship, Self-Sufficiency, and Physical Fitness

Chapter 4 The Rise of Brazilian Butt Lifts as the New Goal-Body

Epilogue

The Ozempic Era

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-6669-1942-X / 166691942X
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1942-4 / 9781666919424
Zustand	Neuware