Event overview
A public lecture organised by the Digital Worldmaking Research Stream and the Centre for Feminist Research
In this talk, I discuss my recent book Empowered, which contends with how, and in what ways, the rise of popular feminism in the twenty-first-century North American and European context has encouraged both a response and an intensification of popular misogyny. I will focus on popular feminist and popular misogynist expressions, practices, and activism on multiple media platforms, arguing that we need to understand the relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny in order to grasp the significance, and the endurance, of both. In the contemporary moment, popular feminism and popular misogyny are created, expressed, and circulated within an economy of visibility, a mediated context that emphasizes visibility in an era of advanced capitalism and networked, multiple media platforms. This talk will focus on popular feminist campaigns that emphasize confidence and self-esteem, and will analyze the ways that these campaigns are re-routed by popular misogyny to position men as victims.
Sarah Banet-Weiser is Professor and Head of Department in the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity (1999); Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship (2007); Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture (2012); and the recent Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (2018). She is the co-editor of Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting (2007); Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (2012); and the forthcoming Racism Post Race. She is currently the co-editor of Communication, Culture & Critique and has written a column for the Los Angeles Review of Books on popular feminism.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Mar 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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