The Cultural Politics of Femvertising: Selling Empowerment

ISBN-13: 9783030991531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Gwynne, Joel

Opis

This book addresses the merits and limitations of femvertising, explores the operations of advertising and commodity feminism in a global context, and presents case studies from Anglo-American, South American and East Asian national contexts. The range of topics include the femvertising of beauty products, contraception, lingerie, breast cancer awareness, financial services and corporate branding. Focusing on the ways in which neoliberalism and postfeminism interact with foundational issues of feminist politics, the chapters in this book situate global femvertising as a complex and exciting advertising strategy which holds the potential for social change amidst an uneasy cohabitation with capitalism and commercial culture.

Spis treści

1. Introduction.

East Asia.

2. Victoria’s Secret Goes to China: The Failed Promise of Empowerment.

3. “Beauty is Growing Up”: A Critical Case Study of Femvertising in ContemporarySouth Korea.- 4. Empowerment in the Pills: Reproductive Rights Postfeminist Rage in Modern China.

5. Glocalization, Marketization and Politicisation: Femvertising at a Crossroad in China.

Anglo-America.

6. What does it take to be ‘Savage’?: Diversity, Empowerment and Representation in Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty Fashion Show.

7. The Impact of Femvertising on Pink Breast Cancer Products in Australia.

8. “Stay woke. Make moves” Branding for a Feminist Future Amidst Pandemic Precarity.

9. “We Are What We Do”: Postfeminism and Nostalgia in Bank Femvertising.

South America.

10. The Femvertising of Beauty: Rhinoplasty of the Negroid Nose in Brazil.

11. Femvertising and Commodity Feminism: The Brazilian Context. 

O autorze

Joel Gwynne teaches cultural studies and gender at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, where is also the Programme Leader for the MEd in English. He is the author and editor of several books on gender, cultural studies and film, including Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys and Hormones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Blurb

This book addresses the merits and limitations of femvertising, explores the operations of advertising and commodity feminism in a global context, and presents case studies from Anglo-American, South American and East Asian national contexts. The range of topics include the femvertising of beauty products, contraception, lingerie, breast cancer awareness, financial services and corporate branding. Focusing on the ways in which neoliberalism and postfeminism interact with foundational issues of feminist politics, the chapters in this book situate global femvertising as a complex and exciting advertising strategy which holds the potential for social change amidst an uneasy cohabitation with capitalism and commercial culture.

Joel Gwynne teaches cultural studies and gender at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, where is also the Programme Leader for the MEd in English. He is the author and editor of several books on gender, cultural studies and film, including Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys and Hormones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).