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Emotional Camping at Blue Stone Manor: RHUGT Through a Postfeminist Lens
Emotional Camping at Blue Stone Manor: RHUGT Through a Postfeminist Lens
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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Jul 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Ellie and Carrie explore the first five episodes of season 2 of "The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip" (Ex-Wives Club) through a postfeminist framework that emphasizes neoliberal values like individualism, self-reinvention, femininity as a bodily property, conspicuous consumption, and spectacular selfhood. Key works cited are Evie Psarras' 2020 New Media & Society article "Emotional camping: The cross-platform labor of the Real Housewives," Beverly Skeggs and Helen Wood's 2012 book "Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value," and Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff's "New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity" (2011).
One question we forgot to ask: You hoofin'?
One question we forgot to ask: You hoofin'?
Released:
Jul 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
Camp (Not Sontag's), Part 1: Ellie and Carrie introduce their own formative experience at an all-girls' sleep-away camp in Maine by discussing the cultural history of camp and its role in the American imagination. Works cited include "'The Ego Ideal of the Good Camper' and the Nature of Summer Camp" by Michael B. Smith (2006) and Abigail Ayres Van Slyck's "A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960" (2006). by All Each Other Has