Feminist perspectives on Orange is the new black : thirteen critical essays / edited by April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Householder, April Kalogeropoulos, 1972- editor.

Trier-Bieniek, Adrienne M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orange is the new black (Television program).

Lesbianism on television.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

"Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which it is based is popular course material at many universities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: is orange the new black? / April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek

Chocolate and vanilla swirl, swi-irl": race and lesbian identity politics / Sarah E. Fryett

We will survive: race and gender-based trauma as cultural truth-telling / Kalima Y. Young

Jenji Kohan's trojan horse: subversive uses of whiteness / Katie Sullivan Barak

"You don't look full ... Asia": the invisible and ambiguous bodies of Chang and Soso / Minjeong Kim

Cleaning up your act: surveillance, queer sex and the imprisoned body / Yvonne Swartz Hammond

The transgender tipping point: the social death of Sophia Burset / Hilary Malatino

All in the (prison) family: genre mixing and queer representation / Kyra Hunting

Pennsatucky's teeth and the persistence of class / Susan Sered

Pleasure and power behind bars: resisting necropower with sexuality / Zoey K. Jones

Anatomy of a binge: abject intimacy and the televisual form / Anne Moore

"You don't feel like a freak anymore": representing disability madness and trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary / Lydia Brown

Piper Chapman's flexible accommodation of difference / H. Rakes

"Can't fix crazy": confronting able-mindedness / Sarah Gibbons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476663920

1476663920

OCLC:

947953979