Badass Feminist Politics

Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism
Herausgeber: Bauer, Janell C.; Blithe, Sarah Jane

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Produktbeschreibung

Badass Feminist Politics explores gender, difference, feminist methods, stigma, social movements, mediated communication, intersectional feminist theory and pedagogy. It is a testament to resilience, resistance, and forward thinking about what these themes mean for new feminist agendas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781978826588
• ISBN-10: 1978826583
• Artikelnr.: 61695354

Autorenporträt

SARAH JANE BLITHE is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Stories of Sex and Stigma: Work and Life in Nevada’s Legal Brothels and Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance: Glass Handcuffs and Working Men in the U.S. JANELL C. BAUER is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at California State University, Chico. Her work focuses on critical studies of organizational communication, work-life policy, social media and activism, feminist theory and pedagogy.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
SARAH JANE BLITHE AND JANELL C. BAUER
2 Badass Activities for Threading Together Theory, Pedagogy, and Activism
JANELL C. BAUER AND SARAH JANE BLITHE
Part I Black Lives Matter: Research and Reflections
3 Being Black in the Ivory: Telling Our Truth and Taking Up Space
ANGELA N. GIST-MACKEY, ASHLEY R. HALL, AND SHARDÉ M. DAVIS
4 #BlackIndigenousStoriesMatter
ANITA MIXON
5 Your Black Friends Are Tired
ANDREA EWING
6 Inciting Change with My Keyboard: Leveraging Hashtag Activism to Fight
Anti-Black Racism during COVID-19
SHARDÉ M. DAVIS
7 The Reality of Our Dreams: Black Lives’ Fears
PRISCA S. NGONDO
8 Black Women in Black Lives Matter: Navigating Being Both Engaged and
Dismissed
CERISE L. GLENN
9 Antiracist Holistic Change in “STEM” Higher Education
MELANIE DUCKWORTH AND KELLY J. CROSS
10 Fighting for Black Studies: An Essay about Educational Empowerment
IDRISSA N. SNIDER
11 When You Can’t Call the Cops: Intimate Partner Violence and
#BlackLivesMatter
REBECCA MERCADO JONES AND JAYNA MARIE JONES
12 Discovering Your Social Justice Gift amid the Distraction of Systemic
Racism
SIOBHAN E. SMITH-JONES AND JOHNNY JONES
13 Sexuality in My Reality: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman’s
Resistance of Sexual Stereotypes
SAVAUGHN WILLIAMS
14 The Forgotten Ones (for Those Who Survive Black Death)
ROBIN M. BOYLORN
15 Performative Activism: Inauthentic Allyship in the Midst of a Racial
Pandemic
TINA M. HARRIS
Part II Narrating the Material Body
16 Nevertheless, She Feels Pretty: A Critical Co-constructed
Autoethnography on Fat Persistence and Resistance
CASSIDY D. ELLIS AND SARAH GONZALEZ NOVEIRI
17 Visual Activism, Persistence, and Identity: Ostomy Selfies as a Form of
Resistance to Dominant Body Ideologies
RUTH J. BEERMAN AND MICHAEL S. MARTIN
18 The Silence of Laughter
LYDIA HUERTA MORENO
Part III Living Feminist Politics in Mediated Environments
19 Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican Womanhood through the Power of
Memes
ANA GOMEZ PARGA
20 Smart Talk: Feminist Communication Questions for Artificial Intelligence
MAUREEN EBBEN AND CHERIS KRAMARAE
21 The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A Case of Digital Persistence
KATHLEEN RUSHFORTH
Part IV New Feminist Theorizing
22 Social Justice Organizing through the Closet Metaphor
JAMES McDONALD AND SARA DeTURK
23 Disrupting the Ratchet-Respectable Binary: Explorations of Ratchet
Feminism and Ratchet Respectability in Daily and Popular Life
DANETTE M. PUGH- PATTON AND ANTONIO L. SPIKES
24 Afrofuturist Lessons in Persistence
JENNA N. HANCHEY
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index