Just Like Us
eBook - PDF

Just Like Us

Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame

  1. 207 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Just Like Us

Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame

About this book

In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from "The Fappening" and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars' activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women's vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: The Rise of Celebrity Feminism
  6. 1. Hacking Celebrity: Sexuality, Privacy, and Networked Misogyny in the Celebrity Nude Photo Hack
  7. 2. Staging Feminism: Negotiating Laborand Calling Out Racism at the 2015 Academy Awards
  8. 3. Nasty Women, Silly Girls: Feminist Generation Gaps and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign
  9. 4. Platform Vulnerabilities: Fighting Harassment and Misogynoir in the Digital Attack on Leslie Jones
  10. 5. TIME’S UP: Celebrity Feminism after #MeToo
  11. Conclusion: Celebrity Feminist Futures
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index