The cultural politics of femvertising : selling empowerment / Joel Gwynne, editor.

This book addresses the merits and limitations of femvertising, explores the operations of advertising and commodity feminism in a global context, and presents case studies from Anglo-American, South American and East Asian national contexts. The range of topics include the femvertising of beauty pr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Gwynne, Joel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. East Asia
  • 2. Victoria's Secret Goes to China: The Failed Promise of Empowerment
  • 3. "Beauty is Growing Up": A Critical Case Study of Femvertising in Contemporary South Korea
  • 4. Empowerment in the Pills: Reproductive Rights Postfeminist Rage in Modern China
  • 5. Glocalization, Marketization and Politicisation: Femvertising at a Crossroad in China
  • Part II. Anglo-America
  • 6. What does it take to be 'Savage'?: Diversity, Empowerment and Representation in Rihanna's Savage x Fenty Fashion Show
  • 7. The Impact of Femvertising on Pink Breast Cancer Products in Australia
  • 8. "Stay woke. Make moves" Branding for a Feminist Future Amidst Pandemic Precarity
  • 9. "We Are What We Do": Postfeminism and Nostalgia in Bank Femvertising
  • Part III. South America
  • 10. The Femvertising of Beauty: Rhinoplasty of the Negroid Nose in Brazil
  • 11. Femvertising and Commodity Feminism: The Brazilian Context.