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  title info:
    title: Mean girl feminism
    sub title: how White feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss
  name:
    name part: Nguyen, Kim Hong (Kim Hong Thanh)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 133 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form and content, from racialized oppression and protest while directing meanness toward people in marginalized groups. Kim Hong Nguyen examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture, the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, advance their girl squads and their partners as part of a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than men. But, as Nguyen argues, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation.
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminist civility and the right to be mean -- Bitch feminism : blackfaced girlboss in feminist performative/performativity politics -- Mean girl feminism : gatekeeping as illegible rage -- Power couple feminism : gaslighting and re-empowering heteronormative aggression -- Global mother feminism : gatekeeping biopower and sovereignty -- Conclusion: Abolishing mean girl feminism.
  note: Kim Hong Nguyen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n------
  subject:
    topic: White feminism
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Feminism and racism
    geographic: North America
  classification: HQ1169 .N48 2024
  classification: 305.48/809
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Feminist media studies
  identifier: 9780252045578
  identifier: 0252045572
  identifier: 9780252087684
  identifier: 0252087682
  identifier: 9780252055232
  identifier: 2023023192
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230713
    record change date: 20240315193402.5
    record identifier: in00004781542