Slut narratives in popular culture / by Laurie McMillan.
| Author/creator | McMillan, Laurie |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge research in cultural and media studies |
| Contents | Introduction: Slut Narratives, Popular Culture, and Social Change -- Section I. Foundations for Thinking about Slut Shaming -- Defining "Slut" from the OED to the Urban Dictionary -- Reclaiming and Prohibiting "Slut": Riot Grrrls, SlutWalk, Social Media, and Slutty Food -- Section II. Critiques of Slut Shaming for Teens -- Limited Critiques of Slut Shaming in Teen Movie Comedies: Mean Girls, Easy A, and To All the Boys I've Loved Before -- Slut Shaming Critiques in Streamed Dramatic Teen Series: Stranger Things, -- Euphoria, and 13 Reasons Why -- Talking about Slut Shaming on YouTube: Jenna Marbles and Laci Green -- Section III. Complicating Slut Shaming for Adults -- Slut Shaming and Polyamory: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy and Silver Linings Playbook -- Slut Shaming, Respectability, and Metanarrative in a Latine Dramedy Series: Jane the Virgin -- Comedic Challenges to Slut Shaming: Stand-Up Comedy Specials and Guys We Fucked: The Anti-Slut Shaming Podcast -- (Challenging) Slut Shaming in Traditional Media, New Media, and Viral Politics: Sandra Fluke and Monica Lewinsky. |
| Abstract | "Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term "slut" in U.S. popular media, 2000-2020. It argues that cultural narratives of intersectional gender identities are gradually but unevenly shifting to become more progressive and sex positive. Moving beyond prior research on slut shaming, which exposes problematic conflations between women's morality and a sexual purity associated with White economic privilege, this book examines how narratives that perpetuate slut shaming are both contested and reinscribed through stories we circulate. It emphasizes effects of twenty-first century developments in digital communication and entertainment. The rapid evolution of genres combined with increased access to the consumption and production of texts stimulates more diverse storytelling. The book's analyses demonstrate twenty-first changes in how slut shaming is depicted and understood, while encouraging consumers and producers of pop culture to attend to cultural narratives as they reify or challenge the subordination of vulnerable populations. Aimed primarily at an academic audience, this book will also engage general readers interested in intersectional feminism, pop culture, new media, digital technologies, and socio-linguistic change. Readers will become more adept at deconstructing assumptions embedded in popular media, especially narratives informing slut shaming"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024016523 |
| ISBN | 9781032394695 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032398037 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |