We Were Feminists Once

We Were Feminists Once

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Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyoncé It drives advertising and marketing campaigns for everything from wireless plans to underwear to perfume, presenting what's long been a movement for social justice as just another consumer choice in a vast market. Individual self-actualization is the goal, shopping more often than not the means, and celebrities the mouthpieces.

But what does it mean when social change becomes a brand identity? Feminism's splashy arrival at the center of today's media and pop-culture marketplace, after all, hasn't offered solutions to the movement's unfinished business. Planned Parenthood is under sustained attack, women are still paid 77 percent -- or less -- of the man's dollar, and vicious attacks on women, both on- and offline, are utterly routine.

Andi Zeisler, a founding editor of Bitch Media, draws on more than twenty years' experience interpreting popular culture in this biting history of how feminism has been co-opted, watered down, and turned into a gyratory media trend. Surveying movies, television, advertising, fashion, and more, Zeisler reveals a media landscape brimming with the language of empowerment, but offering little in the way of transformational change. Witty, fearless, and unflinching, We Were Feminists Once is the story of how we let this happen, and how we can amplify feminism's real purpose and power.

Book Information

Main Genre
Specialized Books
Sub Genre
Society & Social Sciences
Format
Softcover
Pages
304
Price
19.00 €

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Andi Zeisler kritisiert in »Wir waren doch mal Feministinnen« den Marktfeminismus der letzten Jahre. Kapitel für Kapitel widmet sie sich den verschiedenen Bereichen der Popkultur, beleuchtet deren Geschichte bezüglich feministischer Themen und der Partizipation von Frauen und räumt dabei mit vermeintlichen Errungenschaften und großen Rückschritten auf. Ich empfehle das Buch sehr, wenn mensch sich mit der Darstellung von Frauen in verschiedenen kulturellen Bereichen beschäftigen möchte. Zudem stellt Zeisler ausführlich heraus, an welchen Stellen sich politischer Statements zum kommerziellen Zweck bedient wird. Ich fand das Buch sehr lehrreich und habe viel darüber nachgedacht. Mir fiel aber der Einstieg etwas schwer, weil mir gerade in Bezug auf Film und Fernsehen viele Beispiel aus der US-amerikanischen Kultur nicht bekannt waren. Gerade die letzten Kapitel sind aber sehr lesenswert.

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