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- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
Partisan or Neutral? critically examines the Rawlsian ideal of a
public, supposedly neutral, political theory meant to justify
contemporary constitutional democracies. Placing this
ideal-appealed to by neo-natural law theorists and advocates of
'public theology' as well as by political theorists-against the
background of the history of political liberalism, White shows its
contradictory nature. He argues that any such legitimating theory
will be 'partisan,' in the sense of appealing to convictions
concerning the human good that will not be universally accepted. He
concludes that all politics must be imperfect-a matter of
pragmatism and prudence in forming the most workable compromises
possible and in acquiescing, where our principles allow us to do
so, in situations that are often far from optimal.
Thoughtful, witty, and illuminating, in this book Michele White
explores the ways normative masculinity is associated with
computers and the Internet and is a commonly enacted online gender
practice. Through close readings and a series of case studies that
range from wedding forums to men's makeup video tutorials, White
considers the ways masculinities are structured through people's
collaborations and contestations over the establishment of
empowered positions, including debates about such key terms and
positions as "the nice guy," "nerd," "bro," and "groom." She
asserts that cultural notions of masculinity are reliant on
figurations of women and femininity, and explores cultural
conceptions of masculinity and the association of normative white
heterosexual masculinity with men and women. A counterpart to her
earlier book, Producing Women, White has crafted an excellent
primer for scholars of gender, media, and Internet studies.
Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through
new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed,
produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on
sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape
their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means
through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed,
and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and
sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across
numerous forms of media-including trash the dress wedding
photography, Internet how-to instructions about zombie walk brides,
nail polish blogging, DIY crafting, and reborn doll
production-Producing Women elucidates women's production cultures
online, and the ways that individuals can critically study and
engage with these practices.
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