Lights, Camera, Feminism?
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Lights, Camera, Feminism?

Celebrities and Anti-trafficking Politics

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lights, Camera, Feminism?

Celebrities and Anti-trafficking Politics

About this book

Celebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human trafficking—a subject of feminist concern—and they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Acronyms
  8. Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking
  9. 1  •  Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance, and Political Representation
  10. 2  •  Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking Activism, 2000–2016
  11. 3  •  White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls
  12. 4  •  Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher, and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism
  13. 5  •  Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and the UNODC
  14. Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index