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Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From "Bitch" to "Badass" and Beyond

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From "Bitch" to "Badass" and Beyond

McKinney, Mitchell S.
Stuckey, Mary E.

Hardcover

Series: Frontiers in Political Communication, Book 31

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1433134535
ISBN13: 9781433134531
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: May 31 2018
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From Bitch to Badass and Beyond examines the negotiation of feminist politics and gendered political leadership in twenty-first century U.S. popular culture. In a wide-ranging survey of texts--which includes memes and digital discourses, embodied feminist performances, parody and infotainment, and televisual comedy and drama--contributing authors assess the ways in which popular culture discourses both reveal and reshape citizens' understanding of feminist politics and female political figures. Two archetypes of female identity figure prominently in its analysis. Bitch is a frame that reflects the twentieth-century anxiety about powerful women as threatening and unfeminine, trapping political women within the double bind between femininity and competence. Badass recognizes women's capacity to lead but does so in a way that deflects attention away from the persistence of sexist stereotyping and cultural misogyny. Additionally, as depictions of political women become increasingly complex and varied, fictional characters and actual women are beginning to move beyond the bitch and badass frames, fashioning collaborative and comic modes of leadership suited to the new global milieu. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in communication, U.S. political culture, gender and leadership, and women in media.

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