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Jess Butler is an Instructor in Sociology and the Core Curriculum at Butler University. Her work examines the relationship between college hookup culture and postfeminism, demonstrating how both are connected to the perpetuation of gender and racial inequalities and the production of neoliberal subjects. Her main areas of specialization include the sociology of gender, social inequality, feminist theory, and qualitative methods.
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Feminist Formations, Apr 2013
Since its inception in the early 1980s, "postfeminism" has become a common appellation for the at... more Since its inception in the early 1980s, "postfeminism" has become a common appellation for the attitudes and behaviors of young women in the contemporary United States. The article assesses how postfeminism is connected to the discursive deployment of sexuality in the late modern era by examining the socio-historical context out of which postfeminism emerges, reviewing various definitions of postfeminism, and offering a conceptualization of postfeminism as a neoliberal discursive formation. After briefly analyzing the existing scholarship on postfeminism, particularly the ways in which this body of literature privileges a white middle-class, heterosexual subject, the article proposes an intersectional approach to postfeminism in order to more fully understand how postfeminist discourses reproduce inequalities of race, gender, and sexuality, and offers some preliminary thoughts about pop star Nicki Minaj's potential to symbolically rupture postfeminism's discursive boundaries.
International Journal of Communication, Oct 2009
Feminist Formations, Apr 2013
Since its inception in the early 1980s, "postfeminism" has become a common appellation for the at... more Since its inception in the early 1980s, "postfeminism" has become a common appellation for the attitudes and behaviors of young women in the contemporary United States. The article assesses how postfeminism is connected to the discursive deployment of sexuality in the late modern era by examining the socio-historical context out of which postfeminism emerges, reviewing various definitions of postfeminism, and offering a conceptualization of postfeminism as a neoliberal discursive formation. After briefly analyzing the existing scholarship on postfeminism, particularly the ways in which this body of literature privileges a white middle-class, heterosexual subject, the article proposes an intersectional approach to postfeminism in order to more fully understand how postfeminist discourses reproduce inequalities of race, gender, and sexuality, and offers some preliminary thoughts about pop star Nicki Minaj's potential to symbolically rupture postfeminism's discursive boundaries.
International Journal of Communication, Oct 2009