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Lights, Camera, Feminism?

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Celebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human trafficking—a subject of feminist concern—and they are often criticized for promoting s...
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  • 16 May 2023
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Celebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human trafficking—a subject of feminist concern—and they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities’ anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 312
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
ISBN: 9780520384910
Format: eBook
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Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments 
List of Acronyms

Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking 
1 • Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance,
and Political Representation 

2 • Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking
Activism, 2000–2016 

3 • White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada
Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls 

4 • Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher,
and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism 

5 • Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino,
and the UNODC 

Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability

Notes 
References 
Index