Full Description
Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture.
Contents
List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: (In)visible and (Ir)relevant: Setting a Context; Kumarini Silva and Kaitlynn Mendes PART I: TEACHING FEMINISM 2. CEOs and Office Ho's: Notes from the Trenches of Our Women's Studies Classrooms; Sara T. Bernstein and Elise M. Chatelain 3. Suture and Scars: Evidencing the Struggles of Academic Feminism; Andrea Zeffiro and Mél Hogan 4. Feminist Erasure: The Development of a Black Feminist Methodological Theory; Alexandra Moffett-Bateau PART II: FEMINISM IN POPULAR CULTURE 5. Illegible Rage: Performing Femininity in Manhattan Call Girl ; Katherine Hindle 6. Empowered Vulnerability?: A Feminist Response to the Ubiquity of Sexual Violence in the Pilots of Female-Fronted Teen Drama Series; Susan Berridge 7. Against Conformity: Families, Respectability and the Representation of Gender-Nonconforming Youth of Color in Gun Hill Road and Pariah ; Natalie Havlin and Celiany Rivera-Velázquez 8. 'Money's a Bitch': Women, Gender, and the Financial Markets in Hollywood Films; Micky Lee and Monika Raesch 9. Gladiator in a Suit?: Scandal 's Olivia Pope and the Post-Identity Regulation of Physical Agency; Jennifer McClearen PART III: BECOMING MOTHER 10. Got Milk? Motherhood, Breastfeeding and (Re)domesticating Feminism; Kumarini Silva 11. Running Mother Ragged: Women and Labor in the Age of Telework; Eric Lohman 12. Infertility Blogging, Body and the Avatar; Rosemary Hepworth PART IV: FEMINISM/ACTIVISM 13. SlutWalk, Feminism and News; Kaitlynn Mendes 14. A critical reading of SlutWalk in the news: Reproducing postfeminism and whiteness; Lauren McNicol
