Lights, Camera, Feminism?: Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520384880)

Celebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human trafficking--a subject of feminist concern--and they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.

Author: Samantha Majic
ISBN-10: 0520384881
ISBN-13: 9780520384880
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2023
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d