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Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

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Availability:In StockContributor:L. Ayu SaraswatiPublish date:2021-05-18Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479808335ISBN-10:1479808334UPC:9781479808335Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Race & Ethnic RelationsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCDMP29AMA

Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism

Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse, Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur, Margaret Cho, and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to share their stories with the world. But how does such activism reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic governing social media?

Pain Generation troubles this phenomenon by articulating a "neoliberal self(ie) gaze" through which these feminist activists see and storify the self on social media as "good" neoliberal subjects who are appealing, inspiring, and entertaining. This book offers a fresh perspective on feminist activism by demonstrating how the problematic neoliberal logic governing digital spaces like Instagram and Twitter limits the possibilities of how one might use social media for feminist activism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479808335ISBN-10:1479808334UPC:9781479808335Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Race & Ethnic RelationsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCDMP29AMA
L. Ayu Saraswati is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexually Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. She is the author of Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie and Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia, which won the 2013 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa book prize. She is also the co-editor of Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches and Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader.
Publisher: New York University Press

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