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Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century
Elana Levine
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Description for Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century
Hardback. Editor(s): Levine, Elana. Series: Feminist Media Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 29 black and white photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century.
Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century.
Elana Levine brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Grey to Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, ... Read more
Incisive and compelling, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn sheds new light on contemporary women's engagement with an array of media forms in the context of postfeminist culture and neoliberalism.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Feminist Media Studies
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039577
SKU
V9780252039577
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About Elana Levine
Elana Levine is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television and co-author of Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status.
Reviews for Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century
"An enlightening consideration of the ways women consume media."
Bust "Taken as a whole, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn reads as a roundtable discussion on new roads ahead for feminist media and cultural studies more deeply concerned with issues of gender, race, and sexuality than ever."
The Velvet Light Trap "Cupcakes shows that the seemingly most traditional forms of popular culture, ... Read more
Bust "Taken as a whole, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn reads as a roundtable discussion on new roads ahead for feminist media and cultural studies more deeply concerned with issues of gender, race, and sexuality than ever."
The Velvet Light Trap "Cupcakes shows that the seemingly most traditional forms of popular culture, ... Read more