{"product_id":"fan-girls-and-the-media-9781442246553","title":"Fan Girls and the Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays examines the ways that entertainment and media are created and consumed in conjunction with gender stereotypes, by examining the diverse ways that women are confronting these stereotypes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays Trier-Bieniek has collected examine a wide range of popular culture and media topics. . . .Some of the chapters—e.g., ‘Members of the Tribe,’ ‘Cultural Production and Digital Resilience,’ ‘Writing Her Story,’ and ‘The New Housewife’—explore gender, race, and class in contemporary popular culture, adding to scholarship that often implicitly foregrounds whiteness.  Though the feminist literature includes work on many of the pop culture phenomena discussed here—Real Housewives, Buffy, Star Trek, Orange Is the New Black—this collection will be useful to those new to feminist media studies. Summing Up: Recommended…Lower-division undergraduates; general readers. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction - Finding Feminist Fandom in Orange is the New Black Adrienne Trier-Bieniek Chapter 1 - “Sci-Fi and Skimpy Outfits”: Negotiating Objectification, Gendered Boundaries,  and Authenticity within the Star Trek Fandom Sarah M. Corse and Jaime Hartless Chapter 2 - A New Dawn Breaks: Rewriting Gender Wrongs Through Twilight Fan Fiction Penelope Eate Chapter 3 - Coveting Sarah Jessica Parker: When Postfeminism Meets Commodity Feminism Gigi McNamara Chapter 4 - Members of the Tribe: Marginal Identities and the Female Comedy Fan  Community  Joanne Gilbert Chapter 5 - “When a Man Knows a Woman”: Understanding the Fan Appeal of Avenging- Women Written by Men” Lara Stache Chapter 6 - Cultural Production and Digital Resilience: Examining Female Gamers Use of  Social Media to Participate in Video Game Culture Kishonna Gray Chapter 7 - The New Housewife: Gender Roles and Perceptions of The Real Housewives of  Atlanta Natasha Howard Chapter 8 - Writing Her Story: Matriarchy through the Male Gaze in Tyler Perry’s Film The  Family That Preys Christopher K. Jackson and Adria Y. Goldman Index About the Editors and Contributors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039930253655,"sku":"9781442246553","price":64.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442246553.jpg?v=1750945275","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fan-girls-and-the-media-9781442246553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}