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In the decade spanning 2010-2020, social media showcased growing
celebrations of lifetime milestones across multiple platforms.
Utilizing theoretical and methodological approaches based in
cultural studies, Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media
analyzes social media phenomena including gender-reveal parties;
promposals; publicized marriage proposals; divorce celebrations;
and the rites of the Death Positive Movement. As our increased
digital capacity ignites competitive consumerism and social media
currency, we are emboldened to share and circulate major life
events across public platforms. These milestone markers redefine
how we communicate about topics including courtship, birth,
marriage, divorce, and death. While each trend represents a unique
occasion, these celebrations share themes inherent to our human
experience in the digital age. Culminating in the wake of the
pandemic and its impact on each communal celebration, this book
illustrates one of our most vital human drives - connection.
A decade ago, it was difficult to imagine parents-to-be jumping
from planes or dyeing their hair to publicly declare the sex of
their unborn children. Yet gender-reveal parties have rapidly grown
in popularity, saturating the public imagination surrounding
pregnancy and parenthood. As a highly visible trend, gender-reveals
correlate with our increased digital capacity for sharing,
competitive consumerism, ritualized communitas, and social media
currency. At the roots of this trend, there may be motivations to
reassert binary identities against a climate of acceptance and
progression surrounding gender fluidity. To analyze the divisive
discourse surrounding this phenomenon, this book explores issues
including technologies of reproduction and media; community and
competition; visibility and signifying the unborn; consumerist
imperatives; and those uninvited from this trend. In the process of
selecting costumes of gender before birth, Gieseler argues,
parents-to-be appropriate the unborn body as a contested,
discursive site.
The Voices of #MeToo: From Grassroots Activism to a Viral Roar
illustrates the complicated, intersectional genealogy of #MeToo –
arguably one of the most successful social media projects in recent
history. Exploring intersectional identity politics in #MeToo
reveals how marginalized voices are engaged or silenced in the
social media juggernaut. This text analyzes the discursive moment
of the movement within diverse communities facing issues of:
racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, biphobia,
ethnocentrism, binaried ideologies, toxic masculinities and
systemic oppression. This book too interrogates the implications of
#MeToo including: the experiential duality of public and private
citizens; the appropriation and silencing surrounding identity
politics and grassroots activism for people of color; the
double-bind of oppression and dismissal for the LGBTQ+ community;
the varied responses to #MeToo around the developed, developing,
and underdeveloped world; the unique experiences and challenges
facing citizens with disabilities in discussing #MeToo; and, the
discussion of destabilized masculinity for hetero, cisgender men
living in the #MeToo moment.
The Voices of #MeToo: From Grassroots Activism to a Viral Roar
illustrates the complicated, intersectional genealogy of #MeToo –
arguably one of the most successful social media projects in recent
history. Exploring intersectional identity politics in #MeToo
reveals how marginalized voices are engaged or silenced in the
social media juggernaut. This text analyzes the discursive moment
of the movement within diverse communities facing issues of:
racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, biphobia,
ethnocentrism, binaried ideologies, toxic masculinities and
systemic oppression. This book too interrogates the implications of
#MeToo including: the experiential duality of public and private
citizens; the appropriation and silencing surrounding identity
politics and grassroots activism for people of color; the
double-bind of oppression and dismissal for the LGBTQ+ community;
the varied responses to #MeToo around the developed, developing,
and underdeveloped world; the unique experiences and challenges
facing citizens with disabilities in discussing #MeToo; and, the
discussion of destabilized masculinity for hetero, cisgender men
living in the #MeToo moment.
The cinematic vamp presents a fascinating archetypal character,
functioning outside the bounds of normative societal and gender
constructions. This filmic icon motivated the plot yet was often
killed by the narrative end. Therefore, this book attempts to
resolve the implications of the primary research question: Why did
the vamp die? To answer this query, the text follows two
theoretical paths. First, this book uses Michel Foucault's theories
to ask: Is the vamp's death punishment for her location as a
gendered "other"? Secondly, the text uses psychoanalytic
approaches, and specifically the Freudian death drive, to ask: Does
the vamp's death represent and embody the bondage between sex and
death? These theoretical possibilities are applied in the analysis
of the 1927 Clarence Brown film Flesh and the Devil. In addition,
this text expands the typology of the vamp, freeing her from her
archetypal roots and proving her existence throughout cinematic
history. This book is directed towards researchers in
Communications, Media Studies, and Film and Gender Theory. This
text is also addressed to those interested in aspects of
psychoanalysis and social construction and representation.
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