Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Nguyen, Kim Hong

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss

White feminists performing to maintain privilege Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic,...
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Author: Kim Hong Nguyen
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Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Nguyen, Kim Hong

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss

$369.33

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss

$369.33
Author: Kim Hong Nguyen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
White feminists performing to maintain privilege

Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups.

Kim Hong Nguyen's feminist media study examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation.



Author: Kim Hong Nguyen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 01/09/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780252045578

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