Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss
Nguyen, Kim Hong
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780252087684, Publication Date: Mon, January 1, 2024, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
ntain privilege

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 racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups.

Kim Hong Nguyen's feminist media study 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, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, 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.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

The Time Has Come: Why ...

by Kaufman, Michael

Hardcover /Hardcover

$19.50

Buddhist Theory of Relativity

by Thurman, Robert

Audio /Compact Disc

$12.74

The AnzaldĂșan Theory Handbook

by Keating, Analouise

Paperback /Paperback

$28.37

listens & views

ESSENTIAL GEORGE GERSHWIN (GER)

by GERSHWIN,GEORGE

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$12.99

LOCOFRANK 1998 - 2011

by LOCOFRANK

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$16.99

RESUME-PRODUCER FOR HIRE

by 7 MOBEATS

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$6.49

CLUB TIAJ

by COOLIDGE,CALVIN L II

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$19.25

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.