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Gender and Australian celebrity culture / edited by Anthea Taylor and Joanna McIntyre.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global gender (Series)
- Global gender
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Australia.
- Popular culture.
- Masculinity.
- Celebrities.
- Australia.
- Celebrities--Australia.
- Feminism--Australia.
- Feminism.
- Masculinity--Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Anthea Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of four monographs in feminist media and cultural studies, the most recent of which is Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism (with Margaret Henderson, Routledge, 2020). Her book on Germaine Greer, celebrity, and the archive is forthcoming with Routledge. Joanna McIntyre is a Lecturer in Media Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. She has published extensively in the fields of media studies, trans studies, celebrity studies, and queer theory, including in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Her monograph, Transgender Celebrity, is forthcoming with Routledge.
- Contents:
- Part I Celebrity masculinities and settler colonialism p. 21
- 1 From mild colonial boy to 'Jake the Paed': Rolf Harris and Australian celebrity masculinity in the United Kingdom p. 23 / Tanya Serisier
- 2 The manly whiteness of Russell Crowe p. 39 / Sean Redmond
- 3 Johnathan Thurston, Indigeneity, and technologies of masculinity in Australian sporting celebrity culture p. 55 / Holly Randell-Moon
- Part II Feminist politics and celebrity feminisms p. 73
- 4 Celebritised anger: theorising feminist rage, voice, and affective injustice through Hannah Gadsby's Nanette p. 75 / Jilly Boyce Kay
- 5 Clementine Ford, online misogyny, and the labour of celebrity feminism p. 91 / Anita Brady
- 6 'Good girl' turned 'bad': Tracey Spicer's memoir, celebrity feminist journalism, and #MeToo activism in Australia p. 109 / Anthea Taylor
- Part III Queer celebrity and marginalised subjectivities p. 129
- 7 Interviewing a queer national celebrity: Carlotta as an 'outsider within' Australian celebrity culture p. 131 / Joanna McIntyre
- 8 'It was nice for me watching that, because [Magda Szubanski] was very calming': LGBTQ Australians respond to marriage equality activism p. 149 / Lucy Watson
- Part IV Self-presentation and celebrity femininities p. 167
- 9 'I can call myself Australian if I want to': Natalie Tran and Asian Australian femininity on YouTube p. 169 / Sara Tomkins
- 10 Disarming femininity: Annabel Crabb, celebrity, politics, and culture p. 186 / Frances Bonner
- 11 'Australian TV's golden girl': Asher Keddie, Offspring, and the celebrity motherhood narrative p. 202 / Renee Middlemost.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 25, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gender and Australian celebrity culture
- ISBN:
- 9780429772979
- 0429772971
- 9780429430442
- 0429430442
- 0429772998
- 9780429772986
- 042977298X
- 9780429772993
- Publisher Number:
- 40030337087
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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