Meredith Neville-Shepard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1321979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith Neville-Shepard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Neville-Shepard |
| SIGNATURE | NEVILLE-SHEPARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6464-6352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Networked perversion: Fascism, misogyny, and the man versus bear meme
Misogynists have smugly scoffed and projected outrage at women who suggest that, if trapped alone in the woods, they would feel safer encountering a bear than a man. Through an analysis of anti-feminist engagement in the Man versus Bear meme on X, we explore cultural misogyny online as a mode of networked perversity that rehearses a fascist social order. Reaching for the feminist, the misogynistic subject manages his lack by staging transgressive…
Gore empowerment: Patriarchal appetites and white feminist delights in Showtime’s Yellowjackets
By packaging the television show Yellowjackets as a gender-flipped Lord of the Flies meant to reveal that girls can be just as violent and predatory as boys, the Showtime series successfully tapped into the market of popular feminism. Inspired by Sayak Valencia’s discussion of “gore capitalism” in hypermasculine popular culture, this article presents a close reading of Yellowjackets in order to problematize popular feminism’s cannibalization of h…
Uniform choices: Elastic feminism and rhetoric surrounding the 2020 Olympic “pantywar
Through a critical-rhetorical analysis of women’s uniform activism that went viral surrounding the 2020 Olympic Games (held in 2021), this article builds on existing feminist scholarship regarding the ideological correspondence of postfeminism and popular feminism within gendered economies of visibility. By giving primacy to the notion of personal choice, women activist athletes (and the media coverage of them) employed postfeminist discursive pr…
Barbie Girl in a Maga World: Kamala Harris and the Curse of Impossible Womanhood
This article interprets Greta Gerwig's Barbie in the context of mainstream commentary surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Despite popular opinion that Barbie advances feminism, the movie illuminates the conditions that constrain women presidential candidates' electability. Transcoding the field of politics into entertainment, Barbie softens feminist critiques of cultural misogyny in the Trump era while portraying gendered double bind…
Masks and Emasculation: Populist Crisis Rhetoric and the 2020 Presidential Election
This essay illustrates how Donald Trump engaged in what I call "populist crisis rhetoric" throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and coinciding 2020 U.S. presidential campaign cycle. By performing a critical rhetorical analysis of textual fragments surrounding how Trump addressed the preventative measure of mask-wearing, I show how he rejected the role of comforter-in-chief and instead opted for the role of victim-in-chief. Specifically, turning the ba…
Better never means better for everyone”: White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
This article builds on those who have critiqued Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale along racial lines and calls into question the esteemed status the show holds as a rhetorical resource for contemporary feminist activism. By drawing attention to the parasitical relationship that the archetype of the vulnerable (but resilient) white woman has to Black pain and death, I argue that the series further calcifies the dominance of white feminism, enacting what …
Outfitting the Conservative Civil Rights Movement: Rehearsed White Victimhood and the Maga Hat
This essay contends that the red MAGA hat in the modern conservative movement plays off Donald Trump's populist construction of his supporters as victims by creating opportunities for the performance of what we call “rehearsed victimhood.” As an enactment of vulnerability that allows individuals in historically powerful positions to claim marginalized status by manifesting material evidence of their subjugation, we argue that rehearsed victimhood…
The pornified presidency: Hyper-masculinity and the pornographic style in U.S. political rhetoric
Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election, despite allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment, raises questions about how he survived the type of political scandal that traditionally sinks a campaign. We argue that Trump and his behavior were largely framed in a pornographic light, forming an image that emphasized the hypermasculine nature of the U.S. presidency. We suggest that while women candidates are contained and disadvantaged by…
Disciplining the Female Student Body: Consequential Transference in Arguments for School Dress Codes
Based on an examination of news coverage from 2013 to mid-2018, this article analyzes rhetoric in favor of school dress code policies. I illustrate how women’s bodies are problematized in order to manifest grounds for regulating female attire. By employing pragmatic lines of argument, pro-dress code rhetors foster what I term consequential transference. Because pragmatic arguments rely on identifying consequences, questions of agency are implicit…
Disciplining the Female Student Body: Consequential Transference in Arguments for School Dress Codes
Based on an examination of news coverage from 2013 to mid-2018, this article analyzes rhetoric in favor of school dress code policies. I illustrate how women’s bodies are problematized in order to manifest grounds for regulating female attire. By employing pragmatic lines of argument, pro-dress code rhetors foster what I term consequential transference. Because pragmatic arguments rely on identifying consequences, questions of agency are implicit…
The pornified presidency: Hyper-masculinity and the pornographic style in U.S. political rhetoric
Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election, despite allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment, raises questions about how he survived the type of political scandal that traditionally sinks a campaign. We argue that Trump and his behavior were largely framed in a pornographic light, forming an image that emphasized the hypermasculine nature of the U.S. presidency. We suggest that while women candidates are contained and disadvantaged by…
Outfitting the Conservative Civil Rights Movement: Rehearsed White Victimhood and the Maga Hat
This essay contends that the red MAGA hat in the modern conservative movement plays off Donald Trump's populist construction of his supporters as victims by creating opportunities for the performance of what we call “rehearsed victimhood.” As an enactment of vulnerability that allows individuals in historically powerful positions to claim marginalized status by manifesting material evidence of their subjugation, we argue that rehearsed victimhood…
Masks and Emasculation: Populist Crisis Rhetoric and the 2020 Presidential Election
This essay illustrates how Donald Trump engaged in what I call "populist crisis rhetoric" throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and coinciding 2020 U.S. presidential campaign cycle. By performing a critical rhetorical analysis of textual fragments surrounding how Trump addressed the preventative measure of mask-wearing, I show how he rejected the role of comforter-in-chief and instead opted for the role of victim-in-chief. Specifically, turning the ba…
Better never means better for everyone”: White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
This article builds on those who have critiqued Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale along racial lines and calls into question the esteemed status the show holds as a rhetorical resource for contemporary feminist activism. By drawing attention to the parasitical relationship that the archetype of the vulnerable (but resilient) white woman has to Black pain and death, I argue that the series further calcifies the dominance of white feminism, enacting what …
Disciplining the Female Student Body: Consequential Transference in Arguments for School Dress Codes
Based on an examination of news coverage from 2013 to mid-2018, this article analyzes rhetoric in favor of school dress code policies. I illustrate how women’s bodies are problematized in order to manifest grounds for regulating female attire. By employing pragmatic lines of argument, pro-dress code rhetors foster what I term consequential transference. Because pragmatic arguments rely on identifying consequences, questions of agency are implicit…
The pornified presidency: Hyper-masculinity and the pornographic style in U.S. political rhetoric
Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election, despite allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment, raises questions about how he survived the type of political scandal that traditionally sinks a campaign. We argue that Trump and his behavior were largely framed in a pornographic light, forming an image that emphasized the hypermasculine nature of the U.S. presidency. We suggest that while women candidates are contained and disadvantaged by…
Outfitting the Conservative Civil Rights Movement: Rehearsed White Victimhood and the Maga Hat
This essay contends that the red MAGA hat in the modern conservative movement plays off Donald Trump's populist construction of his supporters as victims by creating opportunities for the performance of what we call “rehearsed victimhood.” As an enactment of vulnerability that allows individuals in historically powerful positions to claim marginalized status by manifesting material evidence of their subjugation, we argue that rehearsed victimhood…
Better never means better for everyone”: White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
This article builds on those who have critiqued Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale along racial lines and calls into question the esteemed status the show holds as a rhetorical resource for contemporary feminist activism. By drawing attention to the parasitical relationship that the archetype of the vulnerable (but resilient) white woman has to Black pain and death, I argue that the series further calcifies the dominance of white feminism, enacting what …
Masks and Emasculation: Populist Crisis Rhetoric and the 2020 Presidential Election
This essay illustrates how Donald Trump engaged in what I call "populist crisis rhetoric" throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and coinciding 2020 U.S. presidential campaign cycle. By performing a critical rhetorical analysis of textual fragments surrounding how Trump addressed the preventative measure of mask-wearing, I show how he rejected the role of comforter-in-chief and instead opted for the role of victim-in-chief. Specifically, turning the ba…
Gore empowerment: Patriarchal appetites and white feminist delights in Showtime’s Yellowjackets
By packaging the television show Yellowjackets as a gender-flipped Lord of the Flies meant to reveal that girls can be just as violent and predatory as boys, the Showtime series successfully tapped into the market of popular feminism. Inspired by Sayak Valencia’s discussion of “gore capitalism” in hypermasculine popular culture, this article presents a close reading of Yellowjackets in order to problematize popular feminism’s cannibalization of h…
Uniform choices: Elastic feminism and rhetoric surrounding the 2020 Olympic “pantywar
Through a critical-rhetorical analysis of women’s uniform activism that went viral surrounding the 2020 Olympic Games (held in 2021), this article builds on existing feminist scholarship regarding the ideological correspondence of postfeminism and popular feminism within gendered economies of visibility. By giving primacy to the notion of personal choice, women activist athletes (and the media coverage of them) employed postfeminist discursive pr…
Barbie Girl in a Maga World: Kamala Harris and the Curse of Impossible Womanhood
This article interprets Greta Gerwig's Barbie in the context of mainstream commentary surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Despite popular opinion that Barbie advances feminism, the movie illuminates the conditions that constrain women presidential candidates' electability. Transcoding the field of politics into entertainment, Barbie softens feminist critiques of cultural misogyny in the Trump era while portraying gendered double bind…
Networked perversion: Fascism, misogyny, and the man versus bear meme
Misogynists have smugly scoffed and projected outrage at women who suggest that, if trapped alone in the woods, they would feel safer encountering a bear than a man. Through an analysis of anti-feminist engagement in the Man versus Bear meme on X, we explore cultural misogyny online as a mode of networked perversity that rehearses a fascist social order. Reaching for the feminist, the misogynistic subject manages his lack by staging transgressive…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Rhetoric (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Law (3 works)