Digital Archive:
Beauty, the Body, & Sexuality
Accompanying Janell Hobson's Currents essay, "Celebrity Feminism: More Than a Gateway"
Other Digital Archive Pages:
Feminist Beyhive | Politics of Visibility | Girls & Media | Commodification & Consumption | Teachable Signs Articles
Academic Articles
Anita Brady, “Taking Time Between G-String Changes to Educate Ourselves: Sinead O’Connor, Miley Cyrus, and Celebrity Feminism,” Feminist Media Studies, 2016
Valerie Chepp, “Black Feminist Theory and the Politics of Irreverence: The Case of Women’s Rap,” Feminist Theory, 2015
Kirsty Fairclough, “Nothing Less than Perfect: Female Celebrity, Ageing and Hyper-Scrutiny in the Gossip Industry,” Celebrity Studies,2012
Joshua Gamson, “Jessica Hahn, Media Whore: Sex Scandals and Female Publicity,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2001
Pamela Church Gibson, “Pornostyle: Sexualized Dress and the Fracturing of Feminism,” Fashion Theory, 2014
Kristyn Gorton and Joanne Garde-Hansen, “From Old Media Whore to New Media Troll: The Online Negotiation of Madonna’s Ageing Body,” Feminist Media Studies, 2013
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, “She Gives Birth, She’s Wearing a Bikini: Mobilizing the Postpregnant Celebrity Mom Body to Manage the Post-Second Wave Crisis in Femininity,” Women’s Studies in Communication, 2011
Deborah Jermyn, “‘Get a Life, Ladies. Your Old One Is Not Coming Back’: Ageing, Ageism and the Lifespan of Female Celebrity,” Celebrity Studies, 2012
Ralina Joseph, “‘Tyra Banks Is Fat’: Reading (Post-)Racism and (Post-)Feminism in the New Millennium,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2009
Margaret Laware and Chrisy Moutsatsos, “‘For Skin That’s Us, Authentically Us’: Celebrity, Empowerment, and the Allure of Antiaging Advertisements,” Women’s Studies in Communication, 2013
Barbara Marshall and Momin Rahman, “Celebrity, Ageing and the Construction of ‘Third Age’ Identities,” International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2015
Janet McCabe, “And Bringing up the Rear: Pippa Middleton, Her Derrière and Celebrity as Feminine Ideal,” Celebrity Studies, 2011
Dara Persis Murraya, “Kate Moss, Icon of Postfeminist Disorder,” Celebrity Studies, 2013
Sarah Projansky, “Rihanna’s Closed Eyes,” The Velvet Light Trap, 2010
Chadwick Roberts, “The Politics of Farrah’s Body: The Female Icon as Cultural Embodiment,” The Journal of Popular Culture, 2003
Emily Roxworthy, “Frankenmom: Theatre as History in Deconstructing American Celebrity Motherhood,” Theatre Survey, 2016
Rebecca Tiger, “Perez Hilton and the Celebrity Body,” Humanity & Society, 2013
Brenda Weber, “Reality (Celebrity) Check: Fat, Death and the Ageing Female Body,” Celebrity Studies, 2012
Brenda Weber, “Stark Raving Fat: Celebrity, Cellulite, and the Sliding Scale of Sanity,” Feminism & Psychology, 2012
Theresa White, “Missy ‘Misdemeanor’ Elliott and Nicki Minaj: Fashionistin’ Black Female Sexuality in Hip-Hop Culture - Girl Power or Overpowered?,” Journal of Black Studies, 2013
bell hooks, Marci Blackman, Shola Lynch, and Janet Mock, "Are You Still a Slave? Liberating the Black Female Body," Eugene Lang College, May 7, 2014
Charles Pulliam-Moore, "In 6 Tweets, Janet Mock Takes Down a Controversial Critique of Beyonce's 'Lemonade,'" Fusion, May 10, 2014
This echoes dismissal of femmes as less serious, colluding w patriarchy, merely using our bodies rather than our brains to sell. Lets stop.
— Janet Mock (@janetmock) May 10, 2016
Hillary Crosley Coker, "What bell hooks Really Means When She Calls Beyonce a 'Terrorist,'" Jezebel, May 9, 2014
Books
Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff, eds., New Femininities, Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, 2011
Janelle Hobson, Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture, 2005
Linda Mizejewski, Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics, 2014
The Representation Project, Connie Britton's Hair Secret
Image via Buzzfeed
Mey, "Flawless Trans Women Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox Respond Flawlessly To Katie Couric’s Invasive Questions," Autostraddle, January 7, 2014
Carmen, "Nicki Minaj's Feminism Isn't about Your Comfort Zone: On 'Anaconda' and Respectability Politics," Autostraddle, August 25, 2014
Amy Lam, "Nicki Minaj's Unapologetic Sexuality Is Not a Crisis," Bitch, August 28
Jamilah Lemieux, "Nicki Minaj’s Butt Is Not Your Daughter’s Problem," Ebony, July 29, 2014
Phoebe Robinson, "Nicki Minaj and the Policing of Black Women's Bodies and Their Sexuality," Blaria, August 4, 2014
Mychal Denzel Smith, "Nicki Minaj's Butt and the Politics of Black Women's Sexuality," Feministing, 2014
Online Articles
Sesali B, “On Amber Rose and Feminism That Meets People Where They’re At,” Feministing, June 5, 2015
Noah Berlatsky, “Laverne Cox Gets Naked, Exposes Radical Feminist Exclusionism,” Playboy, April 24, 2015
Tracy Clark-Flory, “Feminists Can Twerk Too: What Annie Lennox Misunderstands about Beyonce,” Salon, October 22, 2014
Natalie Finn, “Amber Rose: Unlikely Feminist Hero or Hurting Her Own Cause? The Debate Continues,” E Online, March 9, 2016
Janelle Hobson, “Policing Feminism: Regulating the Bodies of Women of Color,” Ms. Magazine, June 10, 2013
bell hooks, “Hardcore Honey: Bell Hooks Goes on the Down Low with Lil Kim,” PAPERMAG, July 11, 2014 (originally published 1997)
Michelle Juergen, “Celebrity Feminists Are Hurting Feminism,” Arts.Mic, November 20, 2013
Jessalynn Keller, “Fiercely Real? Tyra Banks’ Body Politics and Post-feminist Branding,” Flow, August 2010
Jacquelin Magnay, “Serena Williams a Lone Warrior in Feminist Calls to Arms,” The Australian, July 9, 2016 [subscription required]
Amanda Marcotte, “Anna Paquin’s Bisexuality for Dummies,” The Daily Beast, August 5, 2014
Arielle Newton, “Nicki Minaj and the Foolish Belief That This Is Feminism,” Black Millennials, July 31, 2014
Claudia Rankine, “The Meaning of Serena Williams,” The New York Times, August 25, 2015
S. E. Smith, “Cate Blanchett, Miley Cyrus and Gillian Anderson Need You To Stop Policing Their Sexuality,” XO Jane, May 19, 2015
Cinnamon Williams, “Examining Amber Rose: How Respectability Still Influences Black Feminism,” For Harriet, September 2015
Vanessa Willoughby, “Applauding the Bootylicious Feminism of Beyonce and Josephine Baker,” Bitch Media, March 10, 2014