{"product_id":"mean-girl-feminism-kim-hong-nguyen-9780252087684","title":"Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhite feminists performing to maintain privilege\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kim Hong Nguyen's feminist media study examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Hong Nguyen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252087682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252087684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2023 pg. 137","brand":"Kim Hong Nguyen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227681157375,"sku":"9780252087684","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b8352be-8ee2-4173-8bf5-d3a94151b44d.jpg?v=1692809994","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mean-girl-feminism-kim-hong-nguyen-9780252087684","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}