Working women on screen: Paid labour and fourth wave feminism By EllieTomsett, NathalieWeidhase and PoppyWilde, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2024, 333 pp, ISBN 978‐3‐031‐49575‐5, Price EUR 119,99 (Hardcover book)
本书从女权主义视角分析当代影视作品中职业女性的形象，探讨媒体叙事如何反映创意、数字和护理行业女性的经历与挑战，适合关注性别与媒体研究的学者。
There is extensive literature on women's employment, but the representation of working women in contemporary television and film has received less attention.This edited volume explores the representation of working women through a feminist lens, examining how media narratives reflect the experiences and challenges faced by women in creative, digital and care-based professions.The opening chapter provides a critical and comprehensive analysis of the digital fitness culture, particularly in the context of Instagram.Adrienne Evans, the author, explores how discourses of body positivity, mental health and narratives of suffering are manifested in the digital fitness influencer culture, exemplified by the case of Alice Liveing's Instagram account.The chapter provides a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of influencer labour in the contemporary digital culture, drawing on relevant theoretical concepts such as post-Fordism, affective capitalism and therapeutic culture.In another chapter, Silvia Daz Fernndez explores how post-feminist sexual capital is mobilized and accumulated by two real estate agents in the reality TV show Selling Sunset.The author analyses how Chrishell Stause and Christine Quinn develop distinct sexual subjectivities to achieve professional success, offering a critical and engaging analysis of the representation of femininity and sexual capital in post-feminist media culture.Ellie Tomsett's contribution, 'Millennial Dumplings' at Work, analyses how the TV comedy-dramas Shrill and Mythic Quest present the challenges faced by women working in the creative industries.The chapter's multifaceted approach, combining contemporary feminist theory with textual analysis, provides valuable insights into the complexities of women's work experiences in these industries.The next chapter examines the new profession of nzhubo (female live streamers) in the Chinese live-streaming industry.The author analyses how nzhubo engage in the digital mediation of intimacy and the gender-specific forms of labour associated with the platform economy in China.