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Mean girl feminism : how White feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss
- Title
- Mean girl feminism : how White feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss / Kim Hong Nguyen.
- Author
- Nguyen, Kim Hong (Kim Hong Thanh)
- Publication
- Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
- ©2024
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 133 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content, from racialized oppression and protest while directing meanness toward people in marginalized groups. Kim Hong Nguyen examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, advance their girl squads and their partners as part of a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than men. But, as Nguyen argues, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation"--
- Series Statement
- Feminist media studies
- Uniform Title
- Feminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [103]-123) and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminist civility and the right to be mean -- Bitch feminism : blackfaced girlboss in feminist performative/performativity politics -- Mean girl feminism : gatekeeping as illegible rage -- Power couple feminism : gaslighting and re-empowering heteronormative aggression -- Global mother feminism : gatekeeping biopower and sovereignty -- Conclusion: Abolishing mean girl feminism.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-1005
- ISBN
- 9780252045578
- 0252045572
- 9780252087684
- 0252087682
- 9780252055232 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023023192
- OCLC
- 1366124389
- Author
- Nguyen, Kim Hong (Kim Hong Thanh), author.
- Title
- Mean girl feminism : how White feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss / Kim Hong Nguyen.
- Publisher
- Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
- Copyright Date
- ©2024
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Feminist media studiesFeminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [103]-123) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Nguyen, Kim Hong (Kim Hong Thanh). Mean girl feminism Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2024 9780252055232 (DLC) 2023023193
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-1005