Anti-feminisms in media culture

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- An Introduction to and Critique of Anti-feminisms -- Defining Anti-feminisms -- Straw Feminisms and Anti-feminists' Straw Practices -- Media Anti-feminisms -- The Men's Movement and Anti-feminisms -- Online Anti-feminist Sites -- Feminisms and Race -- Conclusion: Vitalizing Feminisms -- Chapter Summaries -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Vernacular Feminism: Whiteness, Femininity, and Gendered Discourses of Independence in 1920s Popular Fictions -- Introduction: Post-suffrage Postfeminism -- Vernacular Feminism: The Ubiquity of Feminism and Anti-feminism -- The Constant Nymph (1924): Bohemian Fantasy, Anti-Semitism, and Middlebrow Fiction -- It (1927): Shop-girl Fictions, Public Femininity, and White Trash Celebrity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: "A Matter of Survival": The National Welfare Rights Organization, Black Feminism, and a Critique of Work -- Pathologization of Poverty -- Challenging Mainstream Feminist Activism around Work -- Coalitional Politics -- Conclusion: Challenging Respectability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Policing Integration, Punishing Sexual Freedom: Reactionary White Male Violence and the Politics of Rape in Civil Rights Exploitation Films -- Black Civil Rights, White Feminisms, and Exploitation Film in the Mid-1960s -- (Re)Mediating the Southern Rape Complex and Intersectional Sexual Violence -- Political Action, Interracial Sex, and Sexual Freedom: Rape as Feminist Resistance and Anti-Feminist Warning -- Conclusion: Fantasies of White Female Punishment -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Illegibility of Asian American Feminism On Screen -- A Film about a Film, and Its Maker: Robin Lung Uncovers the Story of Li Ling-Ai.

"This important and timely collection examines the troubling proliferation of anti-feminist language and concepts in contemporary media culture. Edited by Michele White and Diane Negra, these curated essays offer a critical means of considering how contemporary media, politics and digital culture function, especially in relation to how they simultaneously construct and displace feminist politics, women's bodies, and the rights of women and other disenfranchised subjects. The collection explores the simplification and disparagement of feminist histories and ongoing feminist engagements, the consolidation of all feminisms into a static and rigid structure, and tactics that are designed to disparage women and feminists as a means of further displacing disenfranchised people's identities and rights. The book also highlights how it is becoming more imperative to consider how anti-feminisms, including hostilities towards feminist activism and theories, are amplified in times of political and social unrest and used to instigate violence against women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. A must read for students and scholars of media, culture and communication studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, with an interest in feminist media studies"