GSWS 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ryan Gosling, Black Feminism, Mark Ruffalo

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 318
• Professor: Eirini Kotsovili

Document Summary

Myths and stereotypes: i"m not a feminist but . Feminism in the popular imagination: feminism part of media landscape post second wave movement, symbolic annihilation, popular tropes: working woman, superwoman, single mothers, popular narratives emphasized negative impact of feminism on women"s lives, susan faludi: backlash feminism. Generational tensions & girl power": emergence of twf and girl power" rhetoric, riot grrl, offered politicized oppositional discourse, spice girls spoke to commercialized vision of feminism. Girly feminism: two visions of feminism emerging in media. Commodity feminism: popular in advertising, use feminist rhetoric to market products to women, depoliticizing, reduce to symbols" of feminism, empowerment achieved via consumer culture rather than social equality. Bell hooks & lifestyle feminism": "lifestyle feminism ushered in the notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being slowly removed from feminism.