Lights, Camera, Feminism?

Celebrities and Anti-trafficking Politics

Prof. Samantha Majic (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38490-3 (ISBN)

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Celebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human trafficking—a subject of feminist concern—and they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities’ anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.

Samantha Majic is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College—CUNY. She is coauthor of Youth Who Trade Sex in the US: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability, coeditor of Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism, and author of Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms

Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking
1 • Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance,
and Political Representation

2 • Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking
Activism, 2000–2016

3 • White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada
Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls

4 • Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher,
and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism

5 • Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino,
and the UNODC

Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	9 b-w photos, 3 charts
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-38490-3 / 0520384903
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38490-3 / 9780520384903
Zustand	Neuware