Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity

by Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker

Book Overview

This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822356961
• ISBN13: 9780822356967
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"