Overview

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, Aniko Imre, Suzanne Leonard, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Sinead Molony, Elizabeth Nathanson, Diane Negra, Tim Snelson, Yvonne Tasker, Pamela Thoma

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Author:   Diane Negra ,  Yvonne Tasker
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780822356967

ISBN 10:   0822356961
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   28 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Gender and Recessionary Culture / Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker 1 1. Escaping the Recession? The New Vitality of the Woman Worker / Suzanne Leonard 31 2. ""Latina Wisdom"" in ""Postrace"" Recession Media / Isabel Molina-Guzmán 59 3. ""We Are All Workers"": Economic Crisis, Masculinity, and the American Working Class / Sarah Banet-Weiser 81 4. What Julia Knew: Domestic Labor in the Recession-Era Chick Flick / Pamela Thoma 107 5. Dressed for Economic Distress: Blogging and the ""New"" Pleasure of Fashion / Elizabeth Nathanson 136 6. The (Re)possession of the American Home: Negative Equity, Gender Inequality, and the Housing Crisis Horror Story / Tim Snelson 161 7. House and Home: Structuring Absences in Post-Celtic Tiger Documentary / Sinéad Molony 181 8. ""Stuck between Meanings"": Recession-Era Print Fictions of Crisis Masculinity / Hamilton Carroll 203 9. Fairy Jobmother to the Rescue: Postfeminism and the Recessionary Cultures of Reality TV / Hannah Hamad 223 10. How Long Can the Party Last? Gendering the European Crisis on Reality TV / Anikó Imre 246 Bibliography 273 Contributors 299 Index 303"

Reviews

Gendering the Recession is a must-read. Essays referencing topics such as fashion blogs and thrift practices, housing and home ownership, domestic labor, unemployment, family breakdown, and so on keep the material conditions and lived experience of the recession at the fore. - Anita Biressi, coauthor of Class and Contemporary British Culture

Author Information

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin. Yvonne Tasker is Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Negra and Tasker are the coeditors of Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

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