Bitches Unleashed: Performance and Embodied Politics in Favela Funk

ISBN-13: 9781433169564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str.

Raquel Moreira

Opis

The book challenges white and Western feminist approaches to embodied politics, or the use of the body in everyday enactments of resistance, while mapping transgressive performances of femininities by the funkeiras, marginalized women and transfeminine people of color artists in Brazilian favela funk.

Recenzje

"Bitches Unleashed: Performance and Embodied Politics in Favela Funk represents truly cutting-edge, outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies. Raquel Moreira demonstrates an intersectional, performative approach to study historically nuanced and culturally specific modes of gender, sexuality, and the body among Brazil's favela funk performers who are mostly Black and brown singers in the age of globalization. The most significant aspect of this book is to unapologetically showcase the paradox of desire in performing hypersexualized feminine genders which are often controlled, disciplined, and surveilled by patriarchy, sexism, and heteronormativity."-Shinsuke Eguchi, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico

Spis treści

List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introducing Bitches Unleashed - Femininities, Agency, and White Feminist Failures - "I Don't Depend on Men for Shit!": Favela Funk as Industry and Funkeiras' Autonomy - Femininities on Display: Transgression and the Body in Performance - Negotiated Femininities: Relationships with Men and Other Funkeiras - Anti- Blackness and Racial Consciousness among Funkeiras - "Sit Down and Observe Your Own Destruction, Macho!": Travesti Performances in Favela Funk - Beyond Survival: Funkeiras, Embodied Politics, and the Future of Feminism - Index.

O autorze

Raquel Moreira (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor of Communication at Southwestern University. Her research focuses on the role of transgressive performances of femininities in the struggle against structural violence in Brazil. Moreira's research has received the 2020 Monograph of the Year Award from NCA's GLBTQ Communication Division and the 2017 Feminist Scholar of the Year from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication.