Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism

by Robin James and Robin James

When most people think that "little girls should be seen and not heard," a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that's not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren't supposed to be virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream back in spectacularly noisy and transgressive ways as they "Lean In." Resilience is the new, neoliberal feminine ideal: real women overcome all the objectification and silencing that impeded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782795987
• ISBN13: 9781782795988
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"