Allison Yarrow

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90s Bitch (eBook, ePUB)

Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality

Beschreibung

" Allison Yarrow takes you back to the era of Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky and Tonya Harding and examines how the media fueled America's sexism."- Bustle To understand how we got here, we have to rewind the VHS tape. 90s Bitchtells the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. Trailblazing women like Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno, and Marcia Clark were undermined. Newsmakers like Britney Spears, Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbitt were shamed and misunderstood. The advent of the twenty-four-hour news cycle reinforced society's deeply entrenched misogyny. Meanwhile, marketers hijacked feminism, sold "Girl Power," and poisoned a generation. Today echoes of 90s "bitchification" still exist everywhere. To understand why, we must revisit and interrogate the 1990s-a decade in which empowerment was twisted into objectification, exploitation, and subjugation. Award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow's timely examination is a must-read for anyone trying to understand twenty-first century sexism and end it for the next generation. "Yarrow's biting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced-or "bitchified"-women . . . Direct quotes from politicians, journalists and comedians about the women provide the most jarring, oh-my-god-that-really-happened portions of Yarrow's decade excavation." - Pittsburg Post-Gazette "Allison Yarrow is a feminist and a muckraker in the tradition of Betty Friedan, Naomi Klein, and bell hooks." -Steve Almond, author ofBad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country "Yarrow is a skillful scene setter." - The Los Angeles Review of Books "'Essential reading for every feminist." Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud

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Autor

Allison Yarrowis an award-winning journalist and National Magazine Award finalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times,the Washington Post, Vox, and many others .She was a 2017 TED resident and is a 2018 grantee of the International Women's Media Foundation. She produced the Vicedocumentary "Misconception," and has appeared on the Todayshow, MSNBC, NPR and more. Allison was raised in Macon, Georgia and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062412355
• Artikelnr.: 52976860

Rezensionen

"Allison Yarrow is a feminist and a muckraker in the tradition of Betty Friedan, Naomi Klein, and bell hooks. Her enthralling new book, 90s Bitch, takes a long overdue sledgehammer (and, when needed, a scalpel) to the misogynistic myths that cloud our view of that troubling decade. Like all great cultural historians, she examines every sordid cranny of our culture-its sexual mores, its pop culture and rampant consumerism-so as to lay bare the marching orders issued by the patriarchy: that women should shut up and put out, sell out, sell themselves short, and most of all obey. Yarrow's prose is brilliant, her insights are razor-sharp, and her moral aim is essential. If America is ever going to recover from the Trumpian tailspin wrought by masculine insecurity, we need feminists like Allison Yarrow keeping us all honest." Steve Almond, author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country