Feminist Erasures

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: (In)visible and (Ir)relevant: Setting a Context

   1. Introduction: (In)visible and (Ir)relevant: Setting a Context

      • Kumarini Silva, Kaitlynn Mendes

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3. Teaching Feminism

   1. Front Matter

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   2. CEOs and Office Hos: Notes from the Trenches of Our Women’s Studies Classrooms

      • Sara T. Bernstein, Elise M. Chatelain

      Pages 19-35

   3. Suture and Scars: Evidencing the Struggles of Academic Feminism

      • Andrea Zeffiro, Mél Hogan

      Pages 36-53

   4. Feminist Erasures: The Development of a Black Feminist Methodological Theory

      • Alexandra Moffett-Bateau

      Pages 54-71

4. Feminism in Popular Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Illegible Rage: Performing Femininity in Manhattan Call Girl

      • Katherine Hindle

      Pages 75-90

   3. Empowered Vulnerability?: A Feminist Response to the Ubiquity of Sexual Violence in the Pilots of Female-Fronted Teen Drama Series

      • Susan Berridge

      Pages 91-105

   4. Against Conformity: Families, Respectability, and the Representation of Gender-Nonconforming Youth of Color in Gun Hill Road and Pariah

      • Natalie Havlin, Celiany Rivera-Velázquez

      Pages 106-128

   5. Women, Gender, and the Financial Markets in Hollywood Films

      • Micky Lee, Monika Raesch

      Pages 129-149

   6. Gladiator in a Suit?: Scandal’s Olivia Pope and the Post-Identity Regulation of Physical Agency

      • Jennifer McClearen

      Pages 150-163

5. Becoming Mother

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Got Milk?: Motherhood, Breastfeeding, and (Re)domesticating Feminism

      • Kumarini Silva

      Pages 167-182

   3. Running Mother Ragged: Women and Labor in the Age of Telework

      • Eric Lohman

      Pages 183-197

   4. Infertility Blogging, Body, and the Avatar

      • Rosemary Hepworth

      Pages 198-215

6. Feminism/Activism

   1. Front Matter

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   2. SlutWalk, Feminism, and News

      • Kaitlynn Mendes

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   3. A Critical Reading of SlutWalk in the News: Reproducing Postfeminism and Whiteness

      • Lauren McNicol

      Pages 235-257

7. Back Matter

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Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture.

• Feminism
• popular culture
• backlash
• gender
• women
• culture
• feminism
• media

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

  Kumarini Silva

• University of Leicester, UK

  Kaitlynn Mendes

Sara T. Bernstein, Portland State University, USA Susan Berridge, Stirling University, UK Elise M. Chatelain, University of New Orleans, USA Natalie Havlin, City University of New York, USA Rosemary Hepworth, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Katherine Hindle, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Mél Hogan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Micky Lee, Suffolk University, Boston, USA Eric Lohman, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jennifer McClearen, University of Washington, USA Lauren McNicol, Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, Canada Kaitlynn Mendes, University of Leicester, UK Alexandra Moffett-Bateau, John Jay College-CUNY, USA Monika Raesch, Suffolk University, Boston, USA Celiany Rivera-Velázquez, NYU LGBTQ Student Center, USA Kumarini Silva University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Andrea Zeffiro, Brock University, Canada

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