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Mean Girl Feminism

Kim Hong Nguyen
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      White feminists performing to maintain privilege Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups. Kim Hong Nguyen’s feminist media study examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Kim Hong Nguyen EAN: 9780252045578 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Illinois Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-01-09 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Film history, theory or criticism, Television, Popular culture, Feminism and feminist theory

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      Kim Hong Nguyen is an associate professor of communication arts at the University of Waterloo and the editor of Rhetoric in Neoliberalism.
      White feminists performing to maintain privilege Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups. Kim Hong Nguyen’s feminist media study examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Kim Hong Nguyen EAN: 9780252045578 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Illinois Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-01-09 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Film history, theory or criticism, Television, Popular culture, Feminism and feminist theory

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      Kim Hong Nguyen is an associate professor of communication arts at the University of Waterloo and the editor of Rhetoric in Neoliberalism.

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