Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century (Feminist Media Studies)

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Levine directs our attention towards how feminized popular culture, particularly in the twenty-first century, is heavily focused on labor.The postfeminist ideal foregrounds successful careers as well as sexual agency, creating certain pressures for women to “have it all”; lucrative jobs, relationships, family and conventional beauty. The program also includes the short films "Dance Club" (a Fight Club parody) and "Ladies Night" (about male strippers). Read all Winner of a SXSW Audience Award, LADYPORN follows the journey of two female students trying to produce a porno for women.

The complex and contradictory nature of feminized popular culture becomes apparent in Jillian Baez’s chapter on Devious Maids, a drama about Latina women which attempts to deconstruct stereotypes but still relies on them for success. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. She is the author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television and co-author of Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status.These are just a few of the perspectives women are sharing on their relationship with porn, thanks to the first annual Ladyporn Day. Mothers, Fathers, and the Pregnancy App Experience: Designing with Expectant Users in Mind / Barbara L.

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With essays on erotica, nail polish blogs and cupcakes, this collection is a fascinating analysis of American culture and how notions of gender, class, sexuality and race intersect. Interestingly, nails are treated as a separate entity, a blank canvas, which escapes the objectification that other body parts are subjected to. This volume has much to engage with romance scholars who are interested in critical discussions of how current cultural industries cater to and inform female pleasure; not just in the chapters about erotica and chick lit, but the specific feminine world in which they are perceived to be situated.

Whether they love it, whether they wished it were more geared towards their desires, whether they feel it's de facto degrading -- all views are welcome within the Ladyporn Day discussion, White says. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Definitions and other text are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. Ley examines pregnancy apps as a mechanism giving women control over their bodies and family welfare.The documentary is illuminating and brings forth the making of a sex film using the female 'gaze' instead of the typical male 'gaze'. Levine has assembled a comprehensive set of smart, accessible, and interesting essays that truly capture 'feminized' popular culture in the early twenty-first century United States. As Levine incisively points out, “many sites of masculinized popular culture (such as professional football, or ‘quality’ TV dramas) escape gendered labeling” (Levine 7).