Description: This collection of essays examines the ways that entertainment and media are created and consumed in conjunction with gender stereotypes, by examining the diverse ways that women are confronting these stereotypes.
Review Quotes: "The essays Trier-Bieniek has collected examine a wide range of popular culture and media topics. . . .Some of the chapters--e.g., 'Members of the Tribe, ''Cultural Production and Digital Resilience, ''Writing Her Story, ' and 'The New Housewife'--explore gender, race, and class in contemporary popular culture, adding to scholarship that often implicitly foregrounds whiteness. Though the feminist literature includes work on many of the pop culture phenomena discussed here--Real Housewives, Buffy, Star Trek, Orange Is the New Black--this collection will be useful to those new to feminist media studies. Summing Up: Recommended...Lower-division undergraduates; general readers." --Choice Reviews