Gendering the Recession - Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (Hardcover)

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. They also show how, with a few notable exceptions, recession-era popular culture promotes affective normalcy and transformative individual enterprise under duress while avoiding meaningful critique of the privileged white male or the destructive aspects of Western capitalism. By acknowledging the contradictions between political rhetoric and popular culture, and between diverse screen fantasies and lived realities, Gendering the Recession helps to make sense of our postboom cultural moment. Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Hamilton Carroll, Hannah Hamad, Anikó Imre, Suzanne Leonard, Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Sinéad Molony, Elizabeth Nathanson, Diane Negra, Tim Snelson, Yvonne Tasker, Pamela Thoma  

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	March 2014
Editors:	Diane Negra • Yvonne Tasker
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-5687-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8223-5687-2
Barcode:	9780822356875

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