An edition of Protest and popular culture (2001)

Protest and popular culture

women in the U.S. labor movement, 1894-1917

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An edition of Protest and popular culture (2001)

Protest and popular culture

women in the U.S. labor movement, 1894-1917

"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 women's 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. women's protest movements sought to convince women that they are first and foremost laborer/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 women's 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 labor 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Westview Press
Language
English
Pages
304

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-299) and index

Published in
Boulder, Colo

Classifications

Library of Congress
HD6079.2.U5 T75 2001, HD6079.2.U5T75 2001, HD6079.2.U5 T75 2001eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 304 p. :
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17085202M
Internet Archive
protestpopularcu00trie
ISBN 10
0813368197
LCCN
00043708
OCLC/WorldCat
171290988, 44777205
Library Thing
2122451
Goodreads
2229445

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