Gendering the Recession

<div>This timely necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes including crisis masculinity coping women and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television financial journalism novels lifestyle blogs popular cinema and advertising the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across media forms too often considered in isolation from one another. They also show how with a few notable exceptions recession-era popular culture promotes affective normalcy and transformative individual enterprise under duress while avoiding meaningful critique of the privileged white male or the destructive aspects of Western capitalism. By acknowledging the contradictions between political rhetoric and popular culture and between diverse screen fantasies and lived realities <i>Gendering the Recession</i> helps to make sense of our postboom cultural moment.<br><br>Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser Hamilton Carroll Hannah Hamad Anikó Imre Suzanne Leonard Isabel Molina-Guzmán Sinéad Molony Elizabeth Nathanson Diane Negra Tim Snelson Yvonne Tasker Pamela Thoma<br> </div>