Gendering the Recession
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Gendering the Recession

Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity

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eBook - PDF

Gendering the Recession

Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity

About this book

This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across media forms too often considered in isolation from one another. They also show how, with a few notable exceptions, recession-era popular culture promotes affective normalcy and transformative individual enterprise under duress while avoiding meaningful critique of the privileged white male or the destructive aspects of Western capitalism. By acknowledging the contradictions between political rhetoric and popular culture, and between diverse screen fantasies and lived realities, Gendering the Recession helps to make sense of our postboom cultural moment.

Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Hamilton Carroll, Hannah Hamad, AnikĆ³ Imre, Suzanne Leonard, Isabel Molina-GuzmĆ”n, SinĆ©ad Molony, Elizabeth Nathanson, Diane Negra, Tim Snelson, Yvonne Tasker, Pamela Thoma
 

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction. Gender and Recessionary Culture / Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker
  4. One. Escaping the Recession? The New Vitality of the Woman Worker / Suzanne Leonard
  5. Two. ā€œLatina Wisdomā€ in ā€œPostraceā€ Recession Media / Isabel Molina-GuzmĆ”n
  6. Three. ā€œWe Are All Workersā€: Economic Crisis, Masculinity,and the American Working Class / Sarah Banet-Weiser
  7. Four. What Julia Knew: Domestic Labor in the Recession-Era Chick Flick / Pamela Thoma
  8. Five. Dressed for Economic Distress: Blogging and the ā€œNewā€ Pleasures of Fashion / Elizabeth Nathanson
  9. Six. The (Re)possession of the American Home: Negative Equity, Gender Inequality, and the Housing Crisis Horror Story / Tim Snelson
  10. Seven. House and Home: Structuring Absences in Postā€“Celtic Tiger Documentary / SinĆ©ad Molony
  11. Eight. ā€œStuck between Meaningsā€: Recession-Era Print Fictions of Crisis Masculinity / Hamilton Carroll
  12. Nine. Fairy Jobmother to the Rescue: Postfeminism and the Recessionary Cultures of Reality TV / Hannah Hamad
  13. Ten. How Long Can the Party Last? Gendering the European Crisis on Reality TV / AnikĆ³ Imre
  14. Bibliography
  15. Contributors
  16. Index