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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Framing the Past: The Help and Mad Men as Posthistory -- 'Everyone likes to be part of history' -- Chapter 2 Of Girls and Men: Working the Historical Capital of Racist Patriarchy -- Social Realism and The Wire -- The Erasure of Black Women -- Chapter 3 "Plastic Woman": The New Gender Essentialism -- Traveling Sisterhoods and She-ros -- Chapter 4 Do You See What I See?: Postfeminism and Colorblind Diversity -- Postfeminism, Colorblind Casting, and the "Regular Girl" -- "Post-Civil Rights, Post-Feminist Babies" -- Conclusion: Juneteenth 2015 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Historicizing Post-Discourses explores how postfeminism and postracialism intersect in dominant narratives of triumphalism, white male crisis, neoliberal and colonial feminism, and multiculturalism to perpetuate systemic injustice in America. By examining various locations within popular culture, including television shows such as Mad Men and The Wire; books such as The Help and Lean In; as well as Hollywood films, fan forums, political blogs, and presidential speeches, Tanya Ann Kennedy demonstrates the dominance of postfeminism and postracialism in US culture. In addition, she shows how post-discourses create affective communities through their engineering of the history of both race and gender justice. ; https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1035/thumbnail.jpg

Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts – the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic – were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World's Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women's urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow's novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley.