Just Like Us : : Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame / / Caitlin E. Lawson.

In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and new...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (188 p.) :; 22 b-w illus.
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction: The Rise of Celebrity Feminism --
1 Hacking Celebrity: Sexuality, Privacy, and Networked Misogyny in the Celebrity Nude Photo Hack --
2 Staging Feminism: Negotiating Labor and Calling Out Racism at the 2015 Academy Awards --
3 Nasty Women, Silly Girls: Feminist Generation Gaps and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign --
4 Platform Vulnerabilities: Fighting Harassment and Misogynoir in the Digital Attack on Leslie Jones --
5 TIME’S UP Celebrity Feminism after #MeToo --
Conclusion: Celebrity Feminist Futures --
Acknowledgments --
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Index --
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Summary:In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from “The Fappening” and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars’ activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women’s vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781978830943
9783110993899
9783110994810
9783110993752
9783110993738
9783110791303
DOI:10.36019/9781978830943
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Caitlin E. Lawson.