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Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The Computer Pays Its Debt tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.
Center For Craft • The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 | Center for Craft
Girl on Girl - How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Superstar: the Karen carpenter story
Showcases themes and interest in filmography
Her use of drumming was interesting denoting her feminity
Use of barbie dolls was symbolic and grounded in feminst analysis
Tension between structure and agency
Foucault and the docile body
Body representative of the state
Obedient
Regimented
Trained
How power
While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Cartography of generative AI
cartography-of-generative-ai.net