{"id":12871,"date":"2018-10-12T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:28:38","slug":"feminism-popular-culture-and-the-representation-of-a-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2018\/feminism-popular-culture-and-the-representation-of-a-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"#Feminism: Popular Culture and the Representation of a Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        #Feminism: Popular Culture and the Representation of a Movement\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the 20th and 21st centuries feminism has been represented in multiple ways in popular culture. Somewhat surprisingly, the movements around feminism have been at times celebrated in film, television, and music. However, a very specific version of the movements prevail; ones that focus on white, middle-class, neo-liberal narratives, ultimately denying the role of many people who did not fit this narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katharine Bausch is an Instructor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pauline Jewett Institute of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<\/a> at Carleton University. Her rich and compelling book <em>He Thinks He\u2019s Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era<\/em> will be published by UBC Press in fall 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table table l-post__table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><\/th><th><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>When:<\/td><td>Monday, October 15th, 2018<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Time:<\/td><td>10:00 am \u2014 11:30 am<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Location:<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/campus\/buildings\/dunton-tower\/\">Dunton Tower<\/a>, 1811<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Audience:<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/cu_event_audience\/anyone\">Anyone<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the 20th and 21st centuries feminism has been represented in multiple ways in popular culture. Somewhat surprisingly, the movements around feminism have been at times celebrated in film, television, and music. However, a very specific version of the movements prevail; ones that focus on white, middle-class, neo-liberal narratives, ultimately denying the role of many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18422,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/18422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}