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We conceptualize bitching as an ambivalent communicative practice that takes place in and contributes to the construction of gendered organizational identities. Through interpretive analyses of in situ bitching among corporate secretaries, we show how the ambivalent dynamics of their collective bitching both maintained stereotypical gender attributes and destabilized the properly professional secretarial identity. By elaborating the ambivalent dynamics of bitching, we offer a more nuanced understanding of the interplay of control and resistance in the communicative construction of gendered workplace identities.

The aunt in contemporary Anglo-American culture is a deserving though oft-overlooked cultural identity for critical feminist analysis. This article examines selected performances of aunting in contemporary U.S. popular culture to illustrate how the cultural work of aunting articulates both dominant and transgressive constructions of family, care, kinship, and feminine agency. The quiet transgressions of popular aunt figures offer potent sites for progressive feminist rearticulations of family life and kinship relations.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Feminist Vigilance -- Prevailing Depictions of Vigilance and Vigilantes -- Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Vigilance -- The Vigilante -- Feminist Vigilance -- Reconceptualizing Vigilance -- Affective Contexts of Vigilance -- Elaborating Feminist Vigilance -- References -- Chapter 2: The Informatics of Domination and the Necessity for Feminist Vigilance Toward Digital Technology -- Considering Feminist Vigilance as a Methodology -- From a Methodology for Feminist Vigilance to Tactics for Interrupting the Informatics of Domination -- Boundary Work I: (Un)Enrollment and Embodied Living -- Boundary Work II: Disciplining Embodied Emotion -- Conclusion: Vigilance as a Non-Innocent Practice -- References -- Chapter 3: Paradoxes of State Feminism in the Postcolony: An Appeal for Feminist Vigilance -- State Feminism: Transnational Manifestations, and the Ghanaian Context -- The Limits of State Feminism in Ghana: Three Cases -- Toward a Vigilant Feminist Critique -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: "Watch Night" for Black Women: Reflecting on Vigilance and Repurposing Strength for Self-Care and Survival -- Sistas and Self-care -- References -- Chapter 5: Catholic Women Religious: Discerning Faith-based Vigilance -- Catholic Women Religious in America -- European Patriarchal Roots -- Sisters Sent to the New World Were Supposed to "Keep the Light Burning"-McGuinness (2013) -- Coburn and Smith (1999) -- Early and Ongoing Work in the United States -- Cultural Images of Nuns as Custodians of Morality -- Embodiment in Popular Culture -- An Expanded Understanding of Vigilance: Collective Agency -- The Patriarchy Strikes Back -- Vigilance versus Vigilance -- Implications for Understanding Feminist Vigilance -- References.