Historicizing post-discourses : postfeminism and postracialism in United States culture / Tanya Ann Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Tanya Ann, author.

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-racialism--United States.

Post-racialism.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Feminist theory--United States.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

vii, 251 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

Historicizing Post-Discourses explores how postfeminism and postracialism intersect in dominant narratives of triumphalism, white male crisis, neoliberal and colonial feminism, and multiculturalism to perpetuate systemic injustice in America. By examining various locations within popular culture, including television shows such as Mad Men and The Wire; books such as The Help and Lean In; as well as Hollywood films, fan forums, political blogs, and presidential speeches, Tanya Ann Kennedy demonstrates the dominance of postfeminism and postracialism in US culture. In addition, she shows how post-discourses create affective communities through their engineering of the history of both race and gender justice. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Framing the past : the help and mad men as posthistory

Of girls and men : working the historical capital of racist patriarchy

Plastic woman : the new gender essentialism

Do you see what I see? : postfeminism and colorblind diversity

Conclusion

Juneteenth 2015

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kennedy, Tanya Ann, author. Historicizing post-discourses.

ISBN:

9781438464770

1438464770

OCLC:

961800949