Gendering the Recession : Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Negra, Diane.

Contributor:

Tasker, Yvonne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Sex role--Economic aspects.

Women--Employment.

Women in development.

Sex role.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Employment.

Women.

Local Subjects:

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Sex role--Economic aspects.

Women--Employment.

Women in development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Gender and Recessionary Culture / Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker; One. Escaping the Recession? The New Vitality of the Woman Worker / Suzanne Leonard; Two. "Latina Wisdom" in "Postrace" Recession Media / Isabel Molina-Guzmán; Three. "We Are All Workers": Economic Crisis, Masculinity,and the American Working Class / Sarah Banet-Weiser; Four. What Julia Knew: Domestic Labor in the Recession-Era Chick Flick / Pamela Thoma; Five. Dressed for Economic Distress: Blogging and the "New" Pleasures of Fashion / Elizabeth Nathanson

Six. The (Re)possession of the American Home: Negative Equity, Gender Inequality, and the Housing Crisis Horror Story / Tim SnelsonSeven. House and Home: Structuring Absences in Post-Celtic Tiger Documentary / Sinéad Molony; Eight. "Stuck between Meanings": Recession-Era Print Fictions of Crisis Masculinity / Hamilton Carroll; Nine. Fairy Jobmother to the Rescue: Postfeminism and the Recessionary Cultures of Reality TV / Hannah Hamad; Ten. How Long Can the Party Last? Gendering the European Crisis on Reality TV / Anikó Imre; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822376538

0822376539

OCLC:

868992389