The first book of its kind, this volume explores women and non-binary people in popular culture in Canada, with a focus on intersectional analysis of settler colonialism, race, white privilege, ability, and queer representations and experiences in diverse media. The chapters include discussions of film, television, videogames, music, and performance, as well as political events, journalism, social media, fandom, and activism. Throughout this collection, readers are encouraged to think carefully about the role women play in the cultural landscape in Canada as active viewers, creators, and participants.
Covering a wide range of topics from historical perspectives to recent events, media, and technologies, this collection acts as an introduction, an archive, and a continuing commitment to lifting the voices and stories of women and popular culture in Canada. This book is a must-read for gender studies and media studies courses that focus on popular culture, Canadian feminism, and Canadian media.
FEATURES
includes questions for critical thought that stimulate discussion
focuses on intersections of race, gender, ability, and sexuality
provides contemporary Canadian content from an interdisciplinary and intersectional lens
Introduction: Mediated Nation: Genders and Geographies of Popular Culture, by Laine Zisman Newman
PART I:Noteworthy and Newsworthy: The Political and the Popular
1. Representing Misogynoir in Canadian News Media: From BLMTO to Marci Ien, by Cheryl Thompson
2. Reform and Utopia in Canadian Islamic Feminism: The Contradictory Project of Irshad Manji, by Dilyana Mincheva
3. Tales of Resistance and Activism: South Asian Women Journalists in Metro Vancouver, by Syeda Nayab Bukhari
PART II:Feminist, Eh?: Re-Reading Canadian Texts and TV
4. “How Were We to Know We Were Happy?”: Fairy Tale (Fr)antics and Margaret Atwood’s Fickle Feminism, by T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko
5. “Thank You, Spike”: Representations of Teen Pregnancy in the Degrassi Franchise, by Christine Mazumdar
6. “Thank You for Making Me Feel So Comfortable in Your Home”: Baroness von Sketch Queering Up Canadian Television, by Claire Carter
PART III:In Shining Armour: Cops, Robbers, and Superheroes
7. The Case of the Missing Detectives: Canadian Crime Films and the Absent Female Sleuth, by Andrea Braithwaite and Olga Marques
8. Succubi, Synthetics, and Clones, Oh My!: Myths of Multiculturalism and Gender Equity in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Laine Zisman Newman
9. Nelvana of the Northern Lights: White Goddess or Inuk Superheroine?, by Chris Klassen
PART IV: Taking Charge: Recasting Pop Culture through Participatory Media
10. Instapoets and YouTube Stars: Second Generation Immigrant Young Women Reimagining the Canadian National Narrative, by Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
11. The Videoludic Cyborg : Queer and Feminist Appropriations and Hybridity, by Roxanne Chartrand and Pascale Thériault
12. Playing with Identity: Exploring the Role of Gender, Death Positivity, and Queer Representation in A Mortician’s Tale, by Victoria Kannen and Aaron Langille
PART V: Necessary, Not Radical: Gender Inclusivity in Performance, Podcasts, and Music
13. Indigenous Rage Incarnate: Irreconcilable Spaces and Indigestible Bodies, by Jill Carter
14. “If I Disappear… Come Find Me”: Seeking Trans Feminine Music in Canada, by Valley WeeDick
15. Inviting Women to Speak: The Boundaries of Gendered Access Intimacy within the Context of Podcasts with Sick and Disabled Guests, by Jessica Watkin
Recommended Readings: Collective Resistance: Building Futures through Histories
Author Biographies
Biography
Laine Halpern Zisman is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies at Brock University. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in Theatre and Sexual Diversity Studies.
Laine previously edited Women and Popular Culture in Canada under the name Laine Zisman Newman.
“Using intersectionality and cultural studies as its premise, this book explores media representations of gender, ethnicity, class, and ableism to critically dissect the structures of power at work in the Canadian nation-state. Taking a critical view of some of Canada’s cultural icons like Margaret Atwood to the latest hit in pop culture, The Baroness von Sketch Show, this text introduces international academics to Canada’s enigmatic pop culture. The book works hard to dispel some of the myths of a squeaky clean image through a criticality of Indigenous colonization, misogyny, and racism.”
—Dr. Anita Ogurlu, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Saskatchewan
“The volume offers a sweeping intersectional feminist analysis of popular culture in Canada, addressing the role that women-identified artists, creators, and producers play across a variety of media, including genres such as journalism, television, fiction, podcasts, and music. Together, the chapters rethink the power dynamics, ideologies, and discourses at work in shaping gender, identity, subjecthood, and meaning-making within a settler colonial national context. The volume thus successfully pushes back against and indeed rewrites normative understandings of the Canadian cultural landscape.”
—Dr. Carrie Smith, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
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