Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie by Saraswati, L. Ayu

Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781479808342)

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Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie by Saraswati, L. Ayu

Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

$89.00
Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie by Saraswati, L. Ayu

Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

$89.00
Format: Hardcover
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Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism

Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse, Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur, Margaret Cho, and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to share their stories with the world. But how does such activism reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic governing social media?

Pain Generation troubles this phenomenon by articulating a "neoliberal self(ie) gaze" through which these feminist activistssee and storify the self on social media as "good" neoliberal subjects who are appealing, inspiring, and entertaining. This book offers a fresh perspective on feminist activism by demonstrating how the problematic neoliberal logic governing digital spaces like Instagram and Twitter limits the possibilities of how one might use social media for feminist activism.

Author: L. Ayu Saraswati
ISBN-10: 1479808342
ISBN-13: 9781479808342
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

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Choice 06/01/2022
By L. Ayu Saraswati
By L. Ayu Saraswati
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L. Ayu Saraswati is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexually Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. She is the author of Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie and Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia, which won the 2013 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzald俉 book prize. She is also the co-editor of Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches and Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader.

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