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

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A fascinating time capsule of the activities and perceptions of women in the early 21st century in an environment that nurtures and celebrates phenomena such as E. 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. 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. This will be the definitive volume on 'post-feminist' popular cultural productions for some time to come. Her undergraduate degree in English and Telecommunications is from Indiana University and her graduate degrees in Media and Cultural Studies are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As these essays show, the imperative of productivity currently permeating feminized pop culture has created a generation of texts that speak as much to women's roles as public and private workers as to an impulse for fantasy or escape. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.However, these apps are designed with a presumed heteronormative context that isolates same-sex and single parents and places fathers in the backseat. Bodies” addresses the physical appearance, health and spirituality of female bodies as sites of labor and pleasure.

Fifty Shades of Postfeminism: Contextualizing Readers' Reflections on the Erotic Romance Series / Melissa A.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.