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.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Feminist theory--United States.

Feminist theory.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.) : Total Illustrations: 3

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9781438464794

1438464797