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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century South. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In the fall of 1994 Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, South Carolina, reported that an African American male carjacker had kidnapped her two children. The news sparked a multi-state investigation and evoked nationwide sympathy. Nine days later, she confessed to drowning the boys in a nearby lake, and that sympathy quickly turned to outrage. Smith became the topic of thousands of articles, news segments, and media broadcasts - overshadowing the coverage of midterm elections and the O. J. Simpson trial. The notoriety of her case was more than tabloid fare, however; her story tapped into a cultural debate about gender and politics at a crucial moment in American history.In Gendered Politics in the Modern South Keira V. Williams uses the Susan Smith case to analyse the ""new sexism"" found in the agenda of the budding neoconservatism movement of the 1990s. She notes that in the weeks after Smith's confession, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made statements linking Smith's behavior to the 1960s counterculture movement and to Lyndon Johnson's ""Great Society"" social welfare programs. At the same time, various magazines declared the ""death of feminism"" and a ""crisis in masculinity"" as the assault on liberal social causes gained momentum. In response to this perceived crisis, Williams argues, a distinct code of gender discrimination developed that sought to reassert a traditional form of white male power. In addition to consulting a wide variety of sources, including letters from Smith written since her incarceration, Williams contextualises the infamous case within the history of gender politics over the last quarter of the twentieth century. She reveals how the rhetoric, imagery, and legal treatment of infanticidal mothers changed and asserts that the latest shift reflects the evolution of a neoconservative politics. Analyses the new sexism found in the agenda of the budding neoconservatism movement of the 1990s. Keira Williams argues a distinct code of gender discrimination developed that sought to reassert a traditional form of white male power. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies- produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media- constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in America uncovers a rich tradition of matriarchal popular culture in the United States. Beginning with late-nineteenth-century anthropological studies, which theorized a universal prehistoric matriarchy, Williams explores how representations of women-centered societies reveal changing ideas of gender and power over the course of the twentieth century and into the present day. She examines a deep archive of cultural artifacts, both familiar and obscure, including L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz series, Progressive-era fiction like Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian novel Herland, the original 1940s Wonder Woman comics, midcentury films featuring nuclear families, and feminist science fiction novels from the 1970s that invented prehistoric and futuristic matriarchal societies. While such texts have, at times, served as sites of feminist theory, Williams unpacks their cyclical nature and, in doing so, pinpoints some of the premises that have historically hindered gender equality in the United States. Williams also delves into popular works from the twenty-first century, such as Tyler Perry's Madea franchise and DC Comics/Warner Bros.' globally successful film Wonder Woman, which attest to the ongoing presence of matriarchal ideas and their capacity for combating patriarchy and white nationalism with visions of rebellion and liberation. Amazons in America provides an indispensable critique of how anxieties and fantasies about women in power are culturally expressed, ultimately informing a broader discussion about how to nurture a stable, equitable society. With this remarkable study, historian Keira Williams shows how fictional matriarchies - produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media - constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Scholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots gender politics in the South. Why Any Woman advances this line of historical inquiry by focusing on one of the most productive sites of late twentieth-century southern feminisms: popular culture by and about southern women. The nature of popular culture is such that the challenges it poses to the gendered and racial order, for instance, are likely to be consumed--privately, in theaters or at home, alone or with friends or family--by more people than would ever read a feminist manifesto, attend a civil rights demonstration, or lobby a legislator for change. In the cultural desert of the late twentieth-century, pre-internet South, during a time in which there were fewer avenues of activism and organizing, other sources of feminism predominated, and pop culture is where many of us turned for guidance, for role models, and--whether or not we knew it--for consciousness-raising. In a region and during a time of neoconservative backlash in which women's liberation was under attack, southern women's pop culture offered a bridge between the second and third 'waves' of feminism and a major challenge to contemporary antifeminist forces. Why Any Woman examines key texts by and about southern women--the play Crimes of the Heart, the novels The Color Purple and Ugly Ways, the films Thelma and Louise and Beloved, the television shows Designing Women and The Oprah Winfrey Show--as a means of understanding the role of regional popular culture in defining and redefining American feminisms as we approached the twenty-first century. Taken as a collective, these texts expand how we think about the whats, wheres, whens, and hows of feminisms in recent U.S. history. 'Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me,' muses the blueswoman Shug Avery in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Why Any Woman features southerners who, like Shug, rejected and reshaped gender norms, and their stories illustrate some of the ways regional pop culture has been and still is a crucial site of American feminisms.…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorKEIRA V. WILLIAMS is Senior Lecturer of History at Queen s University Belfast.Klappentext Why Any Woman explores pop culture by and about southern women in the 1980s and 1990s in search of f.

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Condition: New. Analyses the new sexism found in the agenda of the budding neoconservatism movement of the 1990s. Keira Williams argues a distinct code of gender discrimination developed that sought to reassert a traditional form of white male power.Klappentext.