{"product_id":"women-feminism-and-pop-politics-9781433134524","title":"Women Feminism and Pop Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWomen, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From Bitch to Badass and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e examines the negotiation of feminist politics and gendered political leadership in twenty-first century U.S. popular culture. In a wide-ranging survey of textswhich includes memes and digital discourses, embodied feminist performances, parody and infotainment, and televisual comedy and dramacontributing authors assess the ways in which popular culture discourses both reveal and reshape citizens' understanding of feminist politics and female political figures. Two archetypes of female identity figure prominently in its analysis. Bitch is a frame that reflects the twentieth-century anxiety about powerful women as threatening and unfeminine, trapping political women within the double bind between femininity and competence. Badass recognizes women's capacity to lead but does so in a way that deflects attention away from the persistence of sexist stereotyping and cultural misogyny. Additionally, as depictions of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Karrin Vasby Anderson’s gift to us is an intellectually invigorating and forward-looking collection of essays. If the future is truly female, it’s because the ‘badasses’ and ‘bitches’ featured here—women who are on the stage, screen, platform, bench, and dais—show us all exactly how to get things done.” —Cheryl Glenn, Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University and author of \u003ci\u003eRhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity through the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eUnspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – Karrin Vasby Anderson: Introduction: Hillary Clinton From \"Bitch\" to \"Badass\" – Part I: Digital Politics and Embodied Feminism(s) – Katie L. Gibson: Reimagining Feminist Dissent: Memetic Celebration and \"The Notorious R.B.G.\" – Belinda Stillion Southard: Smart and Authentic: \"Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls\" and Mediating Authentic Girls – Danielle M. Stern: #TransIsBeautiful: The Polymediated, Intersectional Feminism of Laverne Cox – Valerie R. Renegar\/Lacy Lowrey\/Kirsti Cole: Feminist Comedy’s Blond Badass: Amy Schumer and the Limits of White Feminism – Part II: Feminist Political Parody, Satire, and Infotainment – Mary Douglas Vavrus: \"How Is This Still a Thing?\" The Materialist Feminism of \u003ci\u003eLast Week Tonight With John Oliver\u003c\/i\u003e – Tasha N. Dubriwny: How to Be \"Fierce as F*\u0026amp;!\": \u003ci\u003eFull Frontal\u003c\/i\u003e’s Angry Feminist Satire – Alyssa Samek: Late Night’s Funny Feminists: The Women of \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Show\u003c\/i\u003e, Satire, and Postfeminism – Erika Falk: Relying on or Repudiating Stereotypes: \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e Parodies of Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton – Part III: Feminist Politicians in Prime Time – Michaela D.E. Meyer: \u003ci\u003eThe Good Wife\u003c\/i\u003e’s Fatalistic Feminism: Televised Feminist Failures in Work\/Life Balance, Romance, and Feminist Alliances – Allison M. Prasch: The Two Madam Secretaries: Elizabeth McCord, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Mimetic Representations of Twenty-First Century Feminism – Carrie M. Murawski\/Tasha N. Dubriwny: The Badass and the President: \u003ci\u003eScandal\u003c\/i\u003e’s Prime-Time Presidency – Kristina Horn Sheeler: Burlesquing the Veep: \u003ci\u003eVeep\u003c\/i\u003e’s Absurdist Rejection of Female Presidentiality – Karrin Vasby Anderson: \"Yes We Can’t Not. Knope.\": \u003ci\u003eParks and Recreation\u003c\/i\u003e and the Promise of Comic Feminist Parody – Shawn J. Parry-Giles: Conclusion: Political Women and the Power Paradox: The Case of Hillary Clinton – Contributors – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039605621079,"sku":"9781433134524","price":46.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433134524.jpg?v=1750944237","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-feminism-and-pop-politics-9781433134524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}