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Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been
left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this
field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing
provide new directions for analyzing surveillance. They use
feminist theory to expose the ways in which surveillance practices
and technologies are tied to systemic forms of discrimination that
serve to normalize whiteness, able-bodiedness, capitalism, and
heterosexuality. The essays discuss the implications of, among
others, patriarchal surveillance in colonial North America,
surveillance aimed at curbing the trafficking of women and sex
work, women presented as having agency in the creation of the
images that display their bodies via social media, full-body
airport scanners, and mainstream news media discussion of honor
killings in Canada and the concomitant surveillance of Muslim
bodies. Rather than rehashing arguments as to whether or not
surveillance keeps the state safe, the contributors investigate
what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what
cost. The work fills a gap in feminist scholarship and shows that
gender, race, class, and sexuality should be central to any study
of surveillance. Contributors. Seantel Anais, Mark Andrejevic,
Paisley Currah, Sayantani DasGupta, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Rachel E.
Dubrofsky, Rachel Hall, Lisa Jean Moore, Yasmin Jiwani, Ummni Khan,
Shoshana Amielle Magnet, Kelli Moore, Lisa Nakamura, Dorothy
Roberts, Andrea Smith, Kevin Walby, Megan M. Wood, Laura Hyun Yi
Kang
Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been
left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this
field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing
provide new directions for analyzing surveillance. They use
feminist theory to expose the ways in which surveillance practices
and technologies are tied to systemic forms of discrimination that
serve to normalize whiteness, able-bodiedness, capitalism, and
heterosexuality. The essays discuss the implications of, among
others, patriarchal surveillance in colonial North America,
surveillance aimed at curbing the trafficking of women and sex
work, women presented as having agency in the creation of the
images that display their bodies via social media, full-body
airport scanners, and mainstream news media discussion of honor
killings in Canada and the concomitant surveillance of Muslim
bodies. Rather than rehashing arguments as to whether or not
surveillance keeps the state safe, the contributors investigate
what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what
cost. The work fills a gap in feminist scholarship and shows that
gender, race, class, and sexuality should be central to any study
of surveillance. Contributors. Seantel Anais, Mark Andrejevic,
Paisley Currah, Sayantani DasGupta, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Rachel E.
Dubrofsky, Rachel Hall, Lisa Jean Moore, Yasmin Jiwani, Ummni Khan,
Shoshana Amielle Magnet, Kelli Moore, Lisa Nakamura, Dorothy
Roberts, Andrea Smith, Kevin Walby, Megan M. Wood, Laura Hyun Yi
Kang
In Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars, Rachel
E. Dubrofsky explores the idea that popular media implicitly
portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest,
and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on
television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are
constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk
to how they look and act. Dubrofsky argues that this way of making
white people appear authentic is a strategy of whiteness, requiring
attentiveness to the context of white supremacy in which the
presentations unfold. The volume details how ideas about what is
natural, good, and wholesome are reified in media, showing how
these values are implicitly racialized. Additionally, the project
details how white women are presented as particularly authentic
when they seem to lose agency by expressing affect through
emotional and bodily displays. The chapters examine a range of
popular media-newspaper articles about Donald J. Trump, a selfie
taken at Auschwitz, music videos by Miley Cyrus, the television
series UnREAL, the infamous video of Amy Cooper calling the police
on an innocent Black man, and the documentary Miss
Americana-pinpointing patterns that cut across media to explore the
implications for the larger culture in which they exist. At its
heart, the book asks: Who gets to be authentic? And what are the
implications?
In Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars, Rachel
E. Dubrofsky explores the idea that popular media implicitly
portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest,
and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on
television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are
constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk
to how they look and act. Dubrofsky argues that this way of making
white people appear authentic is a strategy of whiteness, requiring
attentiveness to the context of white supremacy in which the
presentations unfold. The volume details how ideas about what is
natural, good, and wholesome are reified in media, showing how
these values are implicitly racialized. Additionally, the project
details how white women are presented as particularly authentic
when they seem to lose agency by expressing affect through
emotional and bodily displays. The chapters examine a range of
popular media-newspaper articles about Donald J. Trump, a selfie
taken at Auschwitz, music videos by Miley Cyrus, the television
series UnREAL, the infamous video of Amy Cooper calling the police
on an innocent Black man, and the documentary Miss
Americana-pinpointing patterns that cut across media to explore the
implications for the larger culture in which they exist. At its
heart, the book asks: Who gets to be authentic? And what are the
implications?
Rachel E. Dubrofsky examines the reality TV series The Bachelor and
The Bachelorette in one of the first book-length feminist analysis
of the reality TV genre. The research found in The Surveillance of
Women on Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette
meets the growing need for scholarship on the reality genre. This
book asks us to be attentive to how the surveillance context of the
program impacts gendered and racialized bodies. Dubrofsky takes up
issues that cut across the U.S. cultural landscape: the use of
surveillance in the creation of entertainment products, the
proliferation of public confession and its configuration as a
therapeutic tool, the ways in which women's displays of emotion are
shown on television, the changing face of popular feminist
discourse (notions of choice and empowerment), and the recentering
of whiteness in popular media.
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