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Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism calls upon craft,
during an era of political disruption, as a creative force to voice
dissent, express hope, critique the curtailment of civil rights,
and to restore dignity to the human experience. The essays and
artwork featured in this exhibition catalogue are framed within the
context of American democracy and disclose how we, as individuals
and as a culture, "craft democracy" and ultimately question what
democracy means today. This is the catalogue of an exhibition held
at Harold Hacker Hall, Central Library of Rochester [New York]
& Monroe County: August-October, 2019. Juilee Decker is
associate professor of museum studies at Rochester Institute of
Technology. Her publications include the 3rd edition of Museums in
Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
(2017) and the four-volume series Innovative Approaches for Museums
(2015). Hinda Mandell is associate professor in the School of
Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology and is a
co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the
2016 U.S. Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press,
2018). She is editor of Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest
from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats (forthcoming with
Rowman & Littlefield).
A look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters
invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US
presidential election Gender and racial politics were at the center
of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the
first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency.
Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection
on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist
struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of
visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Trump
harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great
Again. This collection of essays looks at the often vitriolic
rhetoric that characterized the election: "nasty women" vs.
"deplorables"; "bad hombres" and "Crooked Hillary"; analyzing the
struggle and its result through the lenses of gender, race, and
their intersections, and with particular attention to the roles of
memory, performance, narrative, and social media. Contributors
examine the ways that gender and racial hierarchies intersected and
reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's
association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with
rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that
stereotypes Mexican men--and men of other immigrant and minority
groups--as sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time,
in response to both Trump'smisogynistic rhetoric and the iconic
power of Clinton's candidacy, feminist consciousness grew steadily
across the nation. Analyzing these phenomena, the volume's
authors--both journalists and academics--engage with prominent
debates in their diverse fields, while an epilogue by the editors
considers recent ongoing developments like the #metoo movement.
CHRISTINE A. KRAY is Associate Professor of Anthropology, TAMAR W.
CARROLL is Associate Professor of History, and HINDA MANDELL is
Associate Professor in the School of Communication, all at
Rochester Institute of Technology.
This book explores the way today's interconnected and digitized
world--marked by social media, over-sharing, and blurred lines
between public and private spheres--shapes the nature and fallout
of scandal in a frenzied media environment. Today's digitized world
has erased the former distinction between the public and private
self in the social sphere. Scandal in a Digital Age marries
scholarly research on scandal with journalistic critique to explore
how our Internet culture driven by (over)sharing and viral, visual
content impacts the occurrence of scandal and its rapid spread
online through retweets and reposts. No longer are examples of
scandalous behavior "merely" reported in the news. Today, news
consumers can see the visual evidence of salacious behavior whether
through an illicit tweet or video with a simple click. And we can't
help but click.
This book explores the way today's interconnected and digitized
world--marked by social media, over-sharing, and blurred lines
between public and private spheres--shapes the nature and fallout
of scandal in a frenzied media environment. Today's digitized world
has erased the former distinction between the public and private
self in the social sphere. Scandal in a Digital Age marries
scholarly research on scandal with journalistic critique to explore
how our Internet culture driven by (over)sharing and viral, visual
content impacts the occurrence of scandal and its rapid spread
online through retweets and reposts. No longer are examples of
scandalous behavior "merely" reported in the news. Today, news
consumers can see the visual evidence of salacious behavior whether
through an illicit tweet or video with a simple click. And we can't
help but click.
Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past
and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural
expression is represented in American politics as it intersects
with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social
identity. Specifically, this body of work examines how
representations in the media and larger culture can establish and
diminish the status of diverse communities of American politicians.
Contributors analyze the rhetorical and performative changes that
have occurred in America as it has shifted politically from growing
acceptance and tolerance to an obscure—and often
hostile—conservative ideology. This book contributes to the
growing dialogue surrounding American politics by citing specific
cases of gender and race-based infringements of the current
political system, as purported by media and party players. This
book will be especially useful to scholars of political science,
media studies, gender studies, and critical race studies.
Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past
and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural
expression is represented in American politics as it intersects
with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social
identity. Specifically, this body of work examines how
representations in the media and larger culture can establish and
diminish the status of diverse communities of American politicians.
Contributors analyze the rhetorical and performative changes that
have occurred in America as it has shifted politically from growing
acceptance and tolerance to an obscure-and often
hostile-conservative ideology. This book contributes to the growing
dialogue surrounding American politics by citing specific cases of
gender and race-based infringements of the current political
system, as purported by media and party players. This book will be
especially useful to scholars of political science, media studies,
gender studies, and critical race studies.
The increasing tabloidization of politics and focus on politicians
involved in sex scandals is both problematic and important. This
book examines how gender impacts political sex scandals in the
United States, in the past and today; explains how political sex
scandals contribute to the mistrust of government; and identifies
why these titillating events do have serious consequences for our
political system. When a major political sex scandal occurs, it
occupies as much as 25 percent of all news coverage in the United
States. Even if people may deny it, they enjoy "consuming" and
talking about political sex scandals. Written by a former
journalist who has frequently explored the intersections of
politics, sex, and gender in the United States, Sex Scandals,
Gender, and Power in Contemporary American Politics investigates
how political sex scandals contribute to the mistrust of government
and why these titillating events have great significance in our
frenzied media environment. The book makes use of comprehensive
descriptive data (including statistics) to explain how political
sex scandals are a representation of society's broader gender
dynamics, conveying subtle messages about power and morality. It
addresses the roles of men and women in political sex scandals over
time, the increasing tabloidization of politics, and the
often-overlooked consequences of sex scandals for the political
system. Readers will see how the types of sex scandals that
politicians are typically involved in differ by political party,
and that all major political sex scandals have involved male-not
female-politicians engaged in bad behavior. Author Hinda Mandell
also documents how scandals' multiple negative effects for the
politicians themselves and for society include turning politics
into a spectator sport, contributing to the mistrust of government,
the questioning of politicians' competence and judgment as a group,
and politicians' diminishing effectiveness in office. Explains how
sex scandals regarding political figures significantly impact
people's opinions of politicians and government as well as how sex
scandals harm the U.S. political process Demonstrates how political
sex scandals are a representation of society's broader gender
dynamics, conveying subtle messages about power and morality Offers
data and statistics about political sex scandal occurrences,
including breakdowns of political scandals by party lines and the
most common type of political sex scandals Supplies extensive
analysis of how voters respond to different "types" of political
wives (such as the supportive political wife versus the absent
political wife)
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