Table of Contents
List of contributors vii
An Introduction to and Critique of Anti-feminisms Michele White 1
1 Vernacular Feminism: Whiteness, Femininity, and Gendered Discourses of Independence in 1920s Popular Fictions Yvonne Tasker 25
2 "A Matter of Survival": The National Welfare Rights Organization, Black Feminism, and a Critique of Work Allison Page 45
3 Policing Integration, Punishing Sexual Freedom: Reactionary White Male Violence and the Politics of Rape in Civil Rights Exploitation Films Jacqueline Pinkowitz 60
4 The Illegibility of Asian American Feminism On Screen L.S. Kim 80
5 Something Else Besides a Feminist: Little Fires Everywhere. and Hollywood Anti-feminism Leigh Goldstein Meenasarani Linde Murugan 101
6 White Feminism and White Tears as Bad Objects Suzanne Leonard 120
7 Making Kin with Whiteness: Feminist Seductions of the Unwatchable Mila Zuo 138
8 Beware the Dancing Communist: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Snap-lash, and the Politics of Embodied Joy Jessalynn Keller 158
9 Natural Hair Matters: On Autobiographical Black Girlfriend Selfie Culture and Social Media Anna Everett 176
Index 197