Oh my God, that pool party
Shrill and fat femininity in a postfeminist media culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12012009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly Willson Holladay (0000-0002-7156-9523, Missouri State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-300 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Monographs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-7751 • E-ISSN: 1479-5787 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03637751.2023.2287106 |
| OpenAlex | W4389702413 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
The Hulu original comedy Shrill is a communicative text for understanding fat women's subjectivity in line with discourses of neoliberalism and postfeminism. Based on interviews with twenty-five women who watch the series, I argue that Shrill offers an avenue through which audiences reckon with expectations of the female body and celebrate resistance to those expectations; in a media landscape that has routinely erased fat women completely or made their bodies a site of comic relief, Shrill engages with rhetorics of body positivity and self-acceptance. While it pushes back against neoliberal, postfeminist discourses of the disciplined female subject, it simultaneously reifies notions of the "right" kind of fat femininity, one that is marked by class (middle- to upper-class) and race (white)
Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Comic strip · Comics · Femininity · Literature · Masculinity · Media culture · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations · Popular culture · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Humor Studies and Applications · Obesity and Health Practices · Philosophy
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The Body in Consumer Culture
Normative White Femininity
Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
Fox's More to Love
Performing identity
Fat Monica, Fat Suits, and Friends
Instagram use and young women’s body image concerns and self-objectification
Postfeminist media culture
Why Can’t You Control Yourself?” Fat Should Be a Feminist Issue
Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias
Sex and the City
Research Design
Reality TV, or The Secret Theater of Neoliberalism
Fat tactics
Fat girls in black bodies
Class Dismissed? Roseanne and the Changing Face of Working-Class Iconography
Young Women and Consumer Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |