Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century (Feminist Media Studies)

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Neither ProQuest nor its licensors make any representations or warranties with respect to the translations. Club 1848 Grand Oaks Farm 1860 Pioneer Cabin on the River 1883 Old Hwy 20, McDade TX 78650 1894 Private Pullman Palace Car 1903 S. 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, the feminine.

These spaces also allow an audience to identify, take pleasure in or challenge certain meanings of femininity. The book is headed by a truly insightful introductory essay from Elana Levine and filled with consistently provocative and unique essays that artfully make the case for the many ways in which gender is central to the production, reception, and content of media. A striking case is made about the sitcom 2 Broke Girls which, perhaps unknowingly, uses [End Page 2] cupcakes as a symbol of restoring white middle-class femininity, as well as an escape from poverty and racial integration. Interestingly, nails are treated as a separate entity, a blank canvas, which escapes the objectification that other body parts are subjected to.This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. Through an engagement with a variety of media and newer cultural forms, the chapters in Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn explore discourses of femininity and the proliferation of. Elana Levine is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the. The documentary is illuminating and brings forth the making of a sex film using the female 'gaze' instead of the typical male 'gaze'. Mothers, Fathers, and the Pregnancy App Experience: Designing with Expectant Users in Mind / Barbara L. Cupcakes shows that the seemingly most traditional forms of popular culture, the sites that appear to simply reify normative femininity, are actually locations for complex and agentic negotiations of gendered, raced, and classed expectations in the often contradictory field of popular culture.With essays on erotica, nail polish blogs and cupcakes, this collection is a fascinating analysis of American culture and how notions of gender, class, sexuality and race intersect. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Elana Levine is Professor of Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Fifty Shades of Postfeminism: Contextualizing Readers' Reflections on the Erotic Romance Series / Melissa A.

Definitions and other text are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. They are partly treats that celebrate girlhood and promiscuity, as well as key for lucrative female-dominated businesses. 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 . Through its manifold critiques of digital media, cultural products, and gendered spaces, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn has the potential to reinvigorate contemporary scholarship in feminist media studies and bring "feminized cultures" back into focus.com 2K Sports 2nd Degree Black Sash Class of 2008 2nd Street District 2nd Street Liquor 2XL Swagger Brands, Inc. Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn offers a concise, engaged, and fascinating set of analyses on things feminine, female, and feminist in the context of popular media culture. Elana Levine is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. All the while, they attempt to free hardcore pornography from the male viewer and revision the genre to embody and empower women's desire. They are also criticized for engaging women in a “retrofemininity” (252), that evokes the traditional “housewife-bake sale” image (253).

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. Elena Carr and Maggie Carey must struggle with amateur porn stars, an inexperienced crew, no budget, and a nervous leading man. What is left unremarked is popular culture’s concentration on youth, as if the main consumers are in their 20s-30s, post-college or new mothers. 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.It's important to know that there is porn for women being made out there," White, who is pictured below, says.