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The power of vulnerability : mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures /

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This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. Contributors such as Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed examine how v...

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Other Authors: Koivunen, Anu (Editor), Kyrölä, Katariina (Editor), Ryberg, Ingrid (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Vulnerability (Personality trait)
Affect (Psychology)
Power (Social sciences)
Minorities > Social conditions.
Vulnérabilité (Trait de personnalité)
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Minorités > Conditions sociales.
Literary Criticism > Modern > 21st Century.
Performing Arts > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Minorities > Social conditions
Verwundbarkeit
Feminismus
LGBT
Antirassismus
Medienkultur
Massenmedien
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures1 Vulnerability as a political language
  • Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg<b>Part I: Vulnerability as a battleground</b>2 Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates
  • Katariina Kyrölä3 Trigger happy: from content warning to censorship
  • Jack Halberstam4 Feminist hurt/feminism hurts
  • Sara Ahmed<b>Part II: Vulnerability and visibility</b><i>5 Little Pink</i>: white fragility and black social death
  • Ylva Habel6 Visibility and vulnerability: negotiating transgender representation and encounters with translatina worlds in <i>The Salt Mines</i> and <i>Wildness</i>
  • Laura Horak7 White vulnerability and the politics of reproduction in <i>Top of the Lake: China Girl</i>
  • Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Ingrid Ryberg8 Spectacularly wounded: white male vulnerability as heterosexual fantasy
  • Susanna Paasonen<b>Part III: Vulnerability and cultural policy</b>9 The invulnerable body of colour: the failure and success of a Swedish Film Diversity initiative
  • Mara Lee Gerden10 Naming, shaming, framing? The ambivalence of queer visibility in audio-visual archives
  • Dagmar Brunow11 Abortion prevention: lesbian citizenship and filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s
  • Ingrid Ryberg12 The caring nation: <i>Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves</i> as a reparative fantasy
  • Anu KoivunenIndex