Michelle Obama and the FLOTUS Effect
Platform, Presence, and Agency
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2019
282 pages
978-1-4985-9490-5 (ISBN)
Description
"The FLOTUS Effect" emphasizes the import of agency on the part of Michelle Obama in relation to her politics as evidenced in her positionality and presence as the first African American woman to serve as First Lady of the United States of America. Her occupation of a previously white space and place tended to frame her as an enigma in the American mind and media. Contributors reflect on Mrs. Obama's eight years in her ceremonial position, and the ways she chose to uniquely embody her role. Hence, the result is a volume that speculates upon her evolving legacy, and the likely "effects" of what it meant to be the first African-American woman to serve in the ceremonial, yet powerful, role of FLOTUS.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 tables;
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-9490-5 (9781498594905)
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Heather E. Harris | Kimberly R. Moffitt
Michelle Obama and the FLOTUS Effect
Platform, Presence, and Agency
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10/2019
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Persons
Heather E. Harris is professor of communication at Stevenson University.
Kimberly R. Moffitt is associate professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Kimberly R. Moffitt is associate professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Content
1.Poetry in Motions (and Cocoa Butter): Discerning Michelle Obama's Body as a Site of Rhetorical Dissent and Performative Black Womanhood
Geraud Blanks
2.Ain't She a First Lady?: Michelle Obama, Black Women's Narratives, and the Rhetoric
of Identification
Sharoni Denise Little
3.Finding the First Lady: The Construction and Negotiation of Michelle Obama's Identity
Leticia D. Williams
4.Negotiated Respectability, the Looking Glass Self and Mrs. Michelle Obama
Ernestine A. W. Duncan and Khadijah O. Miller
5.Michelle Obama's Impact on Contemporary Feminisms: A Critical Examination of
the Intersectional Raced and Gendered Discourse of the First Lady
Diane Forbes Berthoud
6.Reflection, Race, and Representation: Analyzing the Magic of Michelle Obama Effect with and for our Black Daughters
Shawntay Stocks, Sherella Cupid and Tahira Mahdi
7."When They Go Low, We Go High": Michelle Obama's Feminine Style Approach to Sexual Assault During the 2016 Election
James M. Schnoebelen and Sarah C. Dweik
8.Visuality and the Pathetic First Lady
Stephanie Wideman
9.United We Stand: Michelle Obama's Influence on Reframing the Narrative, Imagery and Discourse of Veterans and Military Families
Stormy P. Trotter
10.#thanksMichelleObama: The Fight over Healthy School Lunches and Advocacy Work by the First Lady
Elizabeth Freund Malnati
11.#TurnipForWhat: The On Fleek Persona of Michelle Obama
Erin F. Doss
Geraud Blanks
2.Ain't She a First Lady?: Michelle Obama, Black Women's Narratives, and the Rhetoric
of Identification
Sharoni Denise Little
3.Finding the First Lady: The Construction and Negotiation of Michelle Obama's Identity
Leticia D. Williams
4.Negotiated Respectability, the Looking Glass Self and Mrs. Michelle Obama
Ernestine A. W. Duncan and Khadijah O. Miller
5.Michelle Obama's Impact on Contemporary Feminisms: A Critical Examination of
the Intersectional Raced and Gendered Discourse of the First Lady
Diane Forbes Berthoud
6.Reflection, Race, and Representation: Analyzing the Magic of Michelle Obama Effect with and for our Black Daughters
Shawntay Stocks, Sherella Cupid and Tahira Mahdi
7."When They Go Low, We Go High": Michelle Obama's Feminine Style Approach to Sexual Assault During the 2016 Election
James M. Schnoebelen and Sarah C. Dweik
8.Visuality and the Pathetic First Lady
Stephanie Wideman
9.United We Stand: Michelle Obama's Influence on Reframing the Narrative, Imagery and Discourse of Veterans and Military Families
Stormy P. Trotter
10.#thanksMichelleObama: The Fight over Healthy School Lunches and Advocacy Work by the First Lady
Elizabeth Freund Malnati
11.#TurnipForWhat: The On Fleek Persona of Michelle Obama
Erin F. Doss
