Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Centur

Elana Levine brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Greyto Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, the feminine. As these essays show, the imperative of productivity currently permeating feminized pop culture has created a generation of texts that speak as much to women's roles as public and private workers as to an impulse for fantasy or escape.

Incisive and compelling, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladypornsheds new light on contemporary women's engagement with an array of media forms in the context of postfeminist culture and neoliberalism.