Lifestyle Media in American Culture
eBook - ePub

Lifestyle Media in American Culture

Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lifestyle Media in American Culture

Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness

About this book

This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and self-improvement genres, from newspaper columns to design blogs. Drawing on the methodologies of cultural studies and feminist media studies, and built upon a series of case studies from newspapers, books, television programs, and blogs, it tracks the emergence of lifestyle's discursive formation and shows its relevance in contemporary media culture. It is, in the broadest sense, about the role played by the explosion of lifestyle media texts in changing conceptualizations of selfhood and domestic life.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781032569819
eBook ISBN
9781315464954
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: A Better Everyday Is Waiting for You
  7. 1 Life-Style: The History of an Idea
  8. 2 Empires of the Everyday: Gender, Entertaining, and the Emergence of Lifestyle Media
  9. 3 Logics of Lifestyle: Cable, Class, and Domesticity on HGTV and the Food Network
  10. 4 The Trading Spaces Train Wreck: Blandness and Lifestyle Anxiety on TLC
  11. 5 Fantasies of Production: Digital Lifestyle Media and Women’s Work
  12. Conclusion: Lifestyle Unmoored
  13. Index