WGS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Temporalities, Feminazi, Governmentality
1 Dec 2016
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Mad in madness, britney"s anger became an issue in the public scene. Ties into feminist killjoys, angry black women, white masculine rage. Feminism and feminist inspired assertions become monstrous in a post-feminist culture. Often have to be disavowed by reassuring performances of femininity. In order to avoid association with the monster feminism has to re-feminize itself. Located roughly around the 90s and onward. Mcrobbie says, it isn"t about turning back the clock it"s the idea that we"re in the future that feminism has secured for us. Assumes that feminism has done its job and is no longer necessary. The post is often quite contentious, assumes the existence of a particular gender-equitable utopia. Angela mcrobbie complicates backlash, a book that is based on myths circulating in the 80s concerning an infertility epidemic, a shortage of men, and a jeopardized future based on an insecure reproductive nation (a moral panic)
