Woman and persona performance / Kim Jaime Barbour.
This book works to unpack and explicate womens personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how woman has been constructed socially, culturally, and politically throughout different historical periods and feminist movements. Case studies look at how women in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2023]
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| Summary: | This book works to unpack and explicate womens personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how woman has been constructed socially, culturally, and politically throughout different historical periods and feminist movements. Case studies look at how women in different personal and professional settings construct, enact, and navigate their personas against a backdrop of shifting discourses on gender relations, continued patriarchal dominance, and western neoliberal capitalism. Chapters also delve into how womens personas are constructed online through activism and community building. The author examines the diversity, flexibility, and slipperiness of the ways being a woman is experienced and strategically performed. This book will be useful for scholars and students in Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Media Studies. Kim Barbour is a tenured Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media at the University of Adelaide. Her research looks at persona, the strategic production of identity through digital media, and particularly focuses on the use of social media. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 159 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783031331527 3031331524 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 3, 2023). |