ISBN:
9781138776784
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (247 p)
Paralleltitel:
Print version Producing Women : The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity
DDC:
305.4
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed, and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across numerous forms of media-including trash the dress wedding photography, Internet how-
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Technologies of Producing Women: Femininity, Queerness, and the Crafted Monster; 1 Working eBay and Etsy: Selling Stay-at-Home Mothers; 2 Touching Feeling Women: Reborn Artists, Babies, and Mothers; 3 It's about "Creation, Not Destruction": Brides, Photographers, and Post-wedding Trash the Dress Sessions; 4 Dead White Weddings: Zombie Walk Brides, Marriages, and How-to Guides; 5 Never Cleaning Up: Cosmetic Femininity and the Remains of Glitter
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Afterword: A Show of Hands: Franken Polishes, Mannequin Hands, and #ManicureMondaySelected Bibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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