Suzanne Leonard
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Rehabilitating Cruise's Star Image
Brian, I really enjoyed this overview, particularly the way you map Cruise's various roles in relation to shifts in American politics and culture. I wonder if there's a way to bring together your post with yesterday's ruminations on Cruise& ... -
Terrific post!
I've always been fascinated by how the housewives feuds are part of the the show's affective landscape, and I appreciate how you link the emotional labor to their branding efforts. I do wonder, though, how "irrational" those feuds are ... -
Teaching the Phenomena
Thank you for this week of Fifty Shades, all! I think Karen raises an incredibly important question, and one I've been confronted with recently myself. At the women's college where I teach, I off-handedly offered to run an informal student discu ... -
"I Feel Pretty"
Alice, Thanks for such a great post! And, what a perfect theme for a June week. Your sense that the show positions the brides as "failures of bridal femininity" strikes me as entirely right, since the bride featured in this clip admits as much ... -
Women, Melodrama, and Suffering
Thanks for a wonderful post, Aviva, and this enlightening sequence that you have edited. (I couldn't help but notice that the picture of Hillary appears in two of the three clips!) Your post in some ways answers some of the comments that Noel made on ... -
Sex at Work?
What an interesting line of inquiry here! Kalinda's cagey sexuality (and her insistence, as Aviva says, of blending sexuality and professionalism) reminds me that we constantly negotiate between bringing/hiding our sexual selves in the workplace, a d ... -
Why Gaga Could Save Feminism
Jessalynn, I quite enjoyed your piece, and the lively responses it has provoked. What I find perplexing here, as I always do, is the immediate equation Gaga makes between being a feminist and hating men. Your title makes reference to this slippage, and to ... -
Gaga as Postfeminist Primer
I want to second Jessalynn's post, and particularly her defense of the term "postfeminism" which has, in fact, been an incredibly useful way for self-proclaimed feminist scholars to diagnose the contemporary media landscape. The term was co ...