Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century - Feminist Media Studies

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes: "Levine has assembled a comprehensive set of smart, accessible, and interesting essays that truly capture 'feminized' popular culture in the early twenty-first century United States. This will be the definitive volume on 'post-feminist' popular cultural productions for some time to come."--Rebecca Wanzo, author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political StorytellingReview Quotes: Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn offers a concise, engaged, and fascinating set of analyses on things feminine, female, and feminist in the context of popular media culture. The book is headed by a truly insightful introductory essay from Elana Levine and filled with consistently provocative and unique essays that artfully make the case for the many ways in which gender is central to the production, reception, and content of media. If you've ever wondered how new media forms like Twitter and Facebook have bigger implications for gender relations, this book is for you.--Brenda R. Weber, author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and CelebrityReview Quotes: "In a provocative return to a topic dominant in early feminist media and cultural studies, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn helps us to understand better the pleasures and politics of feminine popular culture at time when its creators and consumers are negotiating both feminist and postfeminist sensibilities.--Mary Celeste Kearney, editor of The Gender and Media ReaderBiographical Note: Elana Levine is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television and co-author of Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status .

Contributor Bio:  Levine, Elana Elana Levine is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, also published by Duke University Press. Lisa Parks is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual, also published by Duke University Press.