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Book SynopsisTrade Review"I am so glad someone finally wrote this book; I am only sorry it wasn’t me! In it, Kim Hong Nguyen takes white feminists to task on our performativity, practices and power structures that only serve to perpetuate white supremacy. Being mean isn’t it, white feminists, and it’s time we take a critical look at how we overcome it in service to liberation for all." --
Ms. Magazine“This is an important book that is beautifully and powerfully written and deeply original while offering productive interventions into the study of mean girl culture and its larger impact on conversations on feminism. Nguyen does an excellent job showing the systemic and historical ways white supremacy and patriarchy enact themselves on white women’s feminist practices and creation of mean girl feminism. A vital contribution.”--Kishonna L. Gray, author of
Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital GamingTable of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Feminist Civility and the Right to Be Mean
- Bitch Feminism: Blackfaced Girl Boss in Feminist Performative/Performativity Politics
- Mean Girl Feminism: Gatekeeping Postfeminist Beauty as Illegible Rage
- Power Couple Feminism: Gaslighting and Re-Empowering Heteronormative Aggression
- Global Mother Feminism: Gatekeeping Biopower and Sovereignty
Conclusion: Abolishing Mean Girl Feminism
Notes
Index
