Working Women on Screen
Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism
Published on 20. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 333 pages
978-3-031-49578-6 (ISBN)
Description
Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism critically examines screen media representations of women's participation in the contemporary labour market. The edited collection brings together contributions on Aesthetic Labour; Power, Politics, and Neoliberal Industries; and Sex, Sexuality, and Relationships.
Within the context of fourth wave feminism, there has been a new proliferation in the global media landscape of representations of women's paid labour. This has coincided with the development of critical and ideological issues surrounding intersectionality and culture wars, as well as the impacts of recessions, political upheavals, and pandemics. Workplace dynamics and post-#MeToo politics have led to the complexification of structures, oppressions and relationships that impact what women can do for money. As a result, the "working woman" is now a constant presence on our screens, though articulated in widely divergent ways. The chapters within this collection critique issues that are deeply embedded in neoliberal conceptions of contemporary feminism, such as aspects of "lean-in" culture, structural oppression, and women's experiences of the "glass ceiling" and "glass cliff".The volume as a whole will analyse representations related to the intersecting dynamics of gender, race, class, sexuality, and disability in television, film, social media and video games. It will be key reading for students and scholars in media, gender, and cultural studies.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a wide-ranging and timely collection with a sharp critical and analytical lens on the current realm of popular representations of women and work in the frame of neoliberal culture. It will be immensely useful for teachers and researchers in feminist media studies." -Angela McRobbie, Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths University of London. "Women's Work on Screen: Paid labour and fourth wave feminism sheds new light on the ways in which women's paid labour is depicted in the contemporary moment. It is a book that is both necessary and vital and unpicks the complexities of how limited and often damaging screen representations are suffused in the contemporary media landscape. A book that is deliberately broad in scope, it is an essential addition to the field."-Kirsty Fairclough, Professor of Screen Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 10 farbige Abbildungen
XVII, 333 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-49578-6 (9783031495786)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-49576-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Ellie Tomsett | Nathalie Weidhase | Poppy Wilde
Working Women on Screen
Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism
Book
02/2024
Palgrave Macmillan
€139.09
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Persons
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.
Content
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).