Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: (In)visible and (Ir)relevant: Setting a Context....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
CEOs and Office Hos: Notes from the Trenches of Our Women’s Studies Classrooms....Pages 19-35
Suture and Scars: Evidencing the Struggles of Academic Feminism....Pages 36-53
Feminist Erasures: The Development of a Black Feminist Methodological Theory....Pages 54-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Illegible Rage: Performing Femininity in Manhattan Call Girl....Pages 75-90
Empowered Vulnerability?: A Feminist Response to the Ubiquity of Sexual Violence in the Pilots of Female-Fronted Teen Drama Series....Pages 91-105
Against Conformity: Families, Respectability, and the Representation of Gender-Nonconforming Youth of Color in Gun Hill Road and Pariah....Pages 106-128
Women, Gender, and the Financial Markets in Hollywood Films....Pages 129-149
Gladiator in a Suit?: Scandal’s Olivia Pope and the Post-Identity Regulation of Physical Agency....Pages 150-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Got Milk?: Motherhood, Breastfeeding, and (Re)domesticating Feminism....Pages 167-182
Running Mother Ragged: Women and Labor in the Age of Telework....Pages 183-197
Infertility Blogging, Body, and the Avatar....Pages 198-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
SlutWalk, Feminism, and News....Pages 219-234
A Critical Reading of SlutWalk in the News: Reproducing Postfeminism and Whiteness....Pages 235-257
Back Matter....Pages 258-260