Pain generation : social media, feminist activism, and the neoliberal selfie / L. Ayu Saraswati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saraswati, L. Ayu, author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual harassment.

Social media.

Social justice.

Feminism.

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Social media has become the front-and-centre arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence and abuse, Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur, Margaret Cho and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to share their stories with the world. But how does such activism reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic governing social media?

Contents:

1. The Neoliberal Self(ie)

2. "Making Gold Out of It": rupi kaur's Poem, Pain, and Phantasmagoria

3. Masking Pain, Unmasking Race: Sexual Harassment, Shaming, and the Sharing Economy of Emotions

4. Silence as Testimony in Margaret Cho's #12daysofrage

5. What Else Might Be Possible? Imagining Vigilant Eco-Love Practice.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4798-0835-0

OCLC:

1202731970