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Women's Leadership in Popular Culture
Women's Leadership in Popular Culture
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This edited volume examines mass media portrayals of women leaders and other powerful women in popular culture. Contributors argue that increased media visibility and representation can lead to more widespread acceptance of women as societal leaders.
The book employs an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and international approach to its coverage of these portrayals and their meanings for society and gender norms. Through a feminist lens, contributors examine these cultural representations within the context of gender, race, sexuality, and social class/economic status. Contributors write from varied disciplinary backgrounds, including journalism, media studies, communication, entertainment studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, information science, business, and education.
Table of Contents
Introduction: “You Can't Be What You Can't See”: A Case for Representation of Women Leaders in Popular Culture
Tracy Everbach, Newly Paul, and Gwendelyn S. Nisbett
PART I: Depictions of Women in Government, Industry, and Academia
1. She's No “Lady President”: Exploring the Evolution of Women Presidents on Television
Lauren D. Furey and Andrea E. Hall
2. Class, Race, and the Complications of Women's Leadership in Superstore
Holly Holladay
3. Academic Leadership and Women: The Chair and Intersectionalities of Women, Power, and the Academy
Lora Helvie-Mason and Kelli Styron
4. “Maybe It's Time for More Women to Be in Charge”: Breaking Stereotypes of Political Leadership in Parks and Recreation
Aubree A. Herman, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Thomas R. Wagner
5. A Tale of Two Ginas: An Analysis of Media Representation of Afro-Latina Female Leadership in the TV series Suits and Pearson
Mia Long Anderson and Creshema Murray
6. Unraveling Conventions: Women's Leadership Insights from How to Get Away with Murder
Marquita Smith, Erica Avent, and Vanessa Charlot
PART II: Women's Leadership Portrayals in Music, Movies, and Sports
7. 'Do You Want Some Company?': Musicians Brandi Carlile, Joni Mitchell, and Tanya Tucker and the Transformational Potential of Feminist-centered Reverse Mentoring
Jacqueline Lambiase and Carolyn Bronstein
8. Glitter, Pink, and Politics: A Rhetorical Analysis of Taylor Swift's Miss Americana's Public Pedagogy and Feminist Consciousness Raising
Emily Maly
9. Feminist and Queer Icon Uncensored? Exploring Audience Visual Performativity at Jolin Tsai's Ugly Beauty World Tours on Social Media
Kedi Zhou
10. Women Athletes Lead College Basketball to New Heights
Tracy Everbach and Gwendelyn S. Nisbett
11. Transformative Leadership When Women “Talk”: Aspirational Images in Sarah Polley's Women Talking
Catherine Dobris and Rachel Davidson
12. The Plasticity of President Barbie: Colorblind Erasure and Misogynoir in Representational Diversity
Michelle Laura Flood
PART III: Sci-fi and Fantasy Representations of Women's Leadership
13. The Servant Mammy: Reading Lovecraft Country's Hippolyta Freeman Circumvents Through Servant Leadership Approach
Aisha Powell, Nicole M. Westrick, and Deanna Hayden
14. The Moral Complexities of Female Leadership in Arrival
Gina Marcello
15. The Woman King: Decolonizing the Stories of African Women's Strength Through Popular Media Culture
Felicity Sena Dogbatse and Ama Boatemaa Appiah-Kubi
16. The Intersectionality of Zhao Pan'er: Gender, Class, and Tradition in the Chinese Context
Zhaoxi (Josie) Liu
Product details
| Published | Nov 13 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781666965063 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 4 bw illus and 3 tables |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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