Feminist Erasures Challenging Backlash Culture

Feminist Erasures presents a collection of original essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe. It focuses on a range of cultural and political contexts to interrogate the apathy toward, erasure of, and interventions in feminist discourse and analysis from popular and political culture. In providing a scholarly critique of feminism's erasure from various social and political contexts, including news media, popular culture, labor, motherhood, and feminist activism, this collection makes visible the systematic marginalization of women and women's rights in contemporary culture. 

Kumarini Silva is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on gender, identity, and global media.

Kaitlynn Mendes is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Leicester, UK. She is author of Feminism in the News (2011) and SlutWalk (forthcoming).

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Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: (In)visible and (Ir)relevant: Setting a Context; Kumarini Silva and Kaitlynn Mendes
PART I: TEACHING FEMINISM
2. CEOs and Office Ho's: Notes from the Trenches of Our Women's Studies Classrooms; Sara T. Bernstein and Elise M. Chatelain
3. Suture and Scars: Evidencing the Struggles of Academic Feminism; Andrea Zeffiro and Mél Hogan
4. Feminist Erasure: The Development of a Black Feminist Methodological Theory; Alexandra Moffett-Bateau
PART II: FEMINISM IN POPULAR CULTURE
5. Illegible Rage: Performing Femininity in Manhattan Call Girl; Katherine Hindle
6. Empowered Vulnerability?: A Feminist Response to the Ubiquity of Sexual Violence in the Pilots of Female-Fronted Teen Drama Series; Susan Berridge
7. Against Conformity: Families, Respectability and the Representation of Gender-Nonconforming Youth of Color in Gun Hill Road and Pariah; Natalie Havlin and Celiany Rivera-Velázquez
8. 'Money's a Bitch': Women, Gender, and the Financial Markets in Hollywood Films; Micky Lee and Monika Raesch
9. Gladiator in a Suit?: Scandal's Olivia Pope and the Post-Identity Regulation of Physical Agency; Jennifer McClearen
PART III: BECOMING MOTHER
10. Got Milk? Motherhood, Breastfeeding and (Re)domesticating Feminism; Kumarini Silva
11. Running Mother Ragged: Women and Labor in the Age of Telework; Eric Lohman
12. Infertility Blogging, Body and the Avatar; Rosemary Hepworth
PART IV: FEMINISM/ACTIVISM
13. SlutWalk, Feminism and News; Kaitlynn Mendes
14. A critical reading of SlutWalk in the news: Reproducing postfeminism and whiteness; Lauren McNicol