Protest And Popular Culture: Women In The American Labor Movement by Mary Triece

Description: Protest And Popular Culture by Mary Triece "Protest and Popular Culture is at once a historical monograph and a critique of postmodernist approaches to the study of mass media, consumerism, and popular political movements. In it, Triece compar" FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Protest and Popular Culture is at once a historical monograph and a critique of postmodernist approaches to the study of mass media, consumerism, and popular political movements. In it, Triece compares the self-representations of several late nineteenth and twentieth-century womens protest movements with representations of women offered by contemporaneous mass media outlets. She shows that from the late nineteenth century until the present day, U.S. womens protest movements sought to convince women that they are first and foremost labourer/producers, while the U.S. media has just as consistently sought to convince women that they are primarily consumers. Triece contends that these approaches to portraying women have been and continue to be constructed in opposition to one another. The leaders of womens protest movements, she argues, have long sought to convince women not to spend time and money on reshaping their selves through consumer purchases, but instead to focus attention on empowering themselves politically by asserting control over their own labour power. The mass media, meanwhile, has always treated such movements as potential threats to the financial well-being of the consumer sector (that is, of advertisers), and so has consistently trivialized them, while seeking simultaneously to convince women that they should devote attention and resources to buying things, not to struggling to overcome class and gender discrimination. Many cultural-studies scholars have argued that in recent years, rising prosperity has made consumerism into the primary site of both individual expression and "resistance" to the dominant socio-economic order, with self-definition through personal purchases supplanting the role formerly played by struggle for an end to inequities of all kinds. These scholars contend that as such, mass media no longer function to naturalize, and thus reinforce such inequities, and consumerism no longer serves to perpetuate them. Triece argues that her examples show that this argument is faulty, and that scholars should continue to take a traditional materialist view in all studies of mass media, consumerism, and popular protest. Author Biography Mary E. Triece is assistant professor in the University of Akron School of Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Texas in 1997. She has published articles in scholarly journals this is her first book. Table of Contents * Contents * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Understanding Popular and Protest Rhetorics * 1. Propriety in a Period of Upheaval * 2. Helping Our Sisters Out: Middle-Class Reformers in the Muckraking Movement * 3. Domesticating Dissent: Replacing Collective Protest with Homelife and Self-improvement * 4. From Sewing Machine to Solidarity in the Streets * 5. Protest and Popular Culture: Bridging Past and Present * Notes * Bibliography * Index Details ISBN0813368197 Short Title PROTEST & POPULAR CULTURE Language English ISBN-10 0813368197 ISBN-13 9780813368191 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2001 Imprint Westview Press Inc Place of Publication Boulder, CO Country of Publication United States Subtitle Women In The American Labor Movement DOI 10.1604/9780813368191 UK Release Date 2001-01-05 AU Release Date 2001-01-05 NZ Release Date 2001-01-05 US Release Date 2001-01-05 Author Mary Triece Pages 314 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Publication Date 2001-01-05 Alternative 9780367098544 DEWEY 331.80820973 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160034327;

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