Working Women on Screen

Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism

AvEllie Tomsett,Nathalie Weidhase

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism critically examines screen media representations of women’s participation in the contemporary labour market.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-20
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:456 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
Antal sidor:333
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031495786

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Scenkonst och film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Dr Ellie Tomsett is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK.Dr Nathalie Weidhase is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Surrey, UK.Dr Poppy Wilde is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- Section 1: Aesthetic Labour.- 2. “The person inside has experienced the most change…”: The labour of fitness, positivity and narratives of suffering.- 3. Selling Sunset… and my postfeminist sexual capital.- 4. ‘Millennial dumplings’ at work: Aesthetic and emotional labour in US sitcoms Shrill (2019- 21) and Mythic Quest (2020-).- 5 Making Nüzhubo: Commodified Intimacy and Gendered Labour in Chinese Live/Life Streaming.- Section 2: Politics and Policies.- 6. Representation of women peacebuilders in the Nigerian TV news media.- 7. Recuperating Women’s Care Work in 2010s Television Fictions of Nurses and Nursing in the Neoliberal NHS.- 8. “I took a dump on the glass ceiling”: Veep, (the Absence of) Competence and Populist Political Culture.- Section 3: Relationships and Power.- 9. “I am the highest paid showrunner in Television!” Shonda Rhimes’ work and influence in the media industry.- 10 Control and the fallacy of agency: negotiating neoliberal workplaces and toxic work environments.- 11. “You Deserve to Be Satisfied”: Women in Tech and the Affective Reconfiguration of the Workplace through Song in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.- 12. Work it, robot! Exploring I’m Your Man [Ich bin dein Mensch] (2021) and The Trouble With Being Born (2020).- Section 4: Sex and Sexuality.- 13. Queering Mothering, Labour, and Illness in Tully.- 14. A quest for self? Work as an identity in the Japanese movie 37 seconds.- 15. Representing Sex Workers: The Experiences of Shae, Ros and Daisy in Game of Thrones (2011-2019).