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HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
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HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
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HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch, brash, sexist, racist, perverse, complex, edgy, daring, provocativeâjust to name a few. Overall, there is no doubt that Girls has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first-century popular culture.
The essays in this book examine the show from various angles including: white privilege; body image; gender; culture; race; sexuality; parental and generational attitudes; third wave feminism; male emasculation and immaturity; hipster, indie, and urban music as it relates to Generation Y and Generation X. By examining these perspectives, this book uncovers many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in the show, while considering the broader societal implications therein.
The essays in this book examine the show from various angles including: white privilege; body image; gender; culture; race; sexuality; parental and generational attitudes; third wave feminism; male emasculation and immaturity; hipster, indie, and urban music as it relates to Generation Y and Generation X. By examining these perspectives, this book uncovers many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in the show, while considering the broader societal implications therein.
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Yes, you can access HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege by Elwood Watson,Jennifer Mitchell,Marc Edward Shaw in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Literary Essays. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Sheâs Just Not That Into You: Dating, Damage, and Gender
- âThe Body Policeâ: Lena Dunham, Susan Bordo, and HBOâs Girls
- Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunhamâs Feminist Politics of Embodiment
- Girlsâ Issues: The Feminist Politics of Girls 's Celebration of the âTrivialâ
- Falling from Pedestals: Dunhamâs Cracked Girls and Boys
- Capitalizing on Post-Hipster Cool: The Music That Makes Girls
- Generation X Archetypes in HBOâs Girls
- Reading Girls : Diegesis and Distinction
- Lena Dunham: The Awkward/Ambiguous Politics of White Millennial Feminism
- Marnye on the Ones and Twos: Appropriating Race, Criticizing Class in Girls
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Contributors