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The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky

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The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky

Rachel E. Dubrofsky examines the reality TV series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette in one of the first book-length feminist analysis of the reality TV genre. The research found in The Surveillance of Women on Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette meets the growing need for scholarship on the reality genre. This book asks us to be attentive to how the surveillance context of the program impacts gendered and racialized bodies. Dubrofsky takes up issues that cut across the U.S. cultural landscape: the use of surveillance in the creation of entertainment products, the proliferation of public confession and its configuration as a therapeutic tool, the ways in which women's displays of emotion are shown on television, the changing face of popular feminist discourse (notions of choice and empowerment), and the recentering of whiteness in popular media.

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Lexington Books

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0739169254

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9780739169254

Authenticating Whiteness

Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky

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Authenticating Whiteness

Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky

In Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars, Rachel E. Dubrofsky explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act. Dubrofsky argues that this way of making white people appear authentic is a strategy of whiteness, requiring attentiveness to the context of white supremacy in which the presentations unfold. The volume details how ideas about what is natural, good, and wholesome are reified in media, showing how these values are implicitly racialized. Additionally, the project details how white women are presented as particularly authentic when they seem to lose agency by expressing affect through emotional and bodily displays. The chapters examine a range of popular media—newspaper articles about Donald J. Trump, a selfie taken at Auschwitz, music videos by Miley Cyrus, the television series UnREAL, the infamous video of Amy Cooper calling the police on an innocent Black man, and the documentary Miss Americana—pinpointing patterns that cut across media to explore the implications for the larger culture in which they exist. At its heart, the book asks: Who gets to be authentic? And what are the implications?

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496843347

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9781496843340

The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky

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Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky

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Feminist Surveillance Studies

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky,Shoshana Amielle Magnet

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Feminist Surveillance Studies

By: Rachel E. Dubrofsky,Shoshana Amielle Magnet

Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing provide new directions for analyzing surveillance. They use feminist theory to expose the ways in which surveillance practices and technologies are tied to systemic forms of discrimination that serve to normalize whiteness, able-bodiedness, capitalism, and heterosexuality. The essays discuss the implications of, among others, patriarchal surveillance in colonial North America, surveillance aimed at curbing the trafficking of women and sex work, women presented as having agency in the creation of the images that display their bodies via social media, full-body airport scanners, and mainstream news media discussion of honor killings in Canada and the concomitant surveillance of Muslim bodies. Rather than rehashing arguments as to whether or not surveillance keeps the state safe, the contributors investigate what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what cost. The work fills a gap in feminist scholarship and shows that gender, race, class, and sexuality should be central to any study of surveillance. Contributors. Seantel Anaïs, Mark Andrejevic, Paisley Currah, Sayantani DasGupta, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Rachel E. Dubrofsky, Rachel Hall, Lisa Jean Moore, Yasmin Jiwani, Ummni Khan, Shoshana Amielle Magnet, Kelli Moore, Lisa Nakamura, Dorothy Roberts, Andrea Smith, Kevin Walby, Megan M. Wood, Laura Hyun Yi Kang

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286

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Duke University Press

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082237546X

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9780822375463

Book's by Rachel E. Dubrofsky

The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

Authenticating Whiteness

Authenticating Whiteness

The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

Feminist Surveillance Studies

Feminist Surveillance Studies

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