Intersectionality and Celebrity Culture

Flood, Michelle

doi:10.1080/07491409.2019.1682917

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“…As self‐identifying as an intersectional scholar becomes increasingly mainstream, it also becomes more profitable for scholars in a “publish or perish” environment. Thus there is a possibility that engaging in intersectional research “becomes a self‐congratulatory sticker to slap on a laptop or a line to add in an Instagram biography, rather than a lifelong commitment to an identity that requires constant self‐reflexivity and advocacy” (Flood, 2019, p. 423). Within research, such a “defanging” of intersectionality can manifest by using the term “intersectional” without citing the foundational scholars within the field, or by not reckoning with the supremacist assumptions inherent to the work (Bauer et al., 2021).…”

Section: History Of Intersectionality Within Social Psychologymentioning

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Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer

Hudson,

Myer,

Berney

2024

Social & Personality Psych

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The incorporation of intersectionality within social psychology is becoming an increasingly common practice. From the hypotheses we generate to the methods we employ, as well as the analyses we run and the theories we use, researchers are moving away from studying social identities in isolation. By studying the interactional and emergent properties of multiple identities that go beyond the sum of identities, as well as understanding the complex nature of power and privilege, social psychologists can better understand processes such as stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Yet it can be difficult for researchers to know exactly where to begin. This review serves as a primer for conducting intersectionally‐informed research within social psychology, using the intersection of race and gender within the United States as a case study. We first describe the history of intersectional research in psychology, noting its barriers to implementation. Next, we review three classes of intersectionally‐informed models — intersectional perception, experience, and treatment — and offer suggestions for future research as well as ways researchers can incorporate the model within their work.

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Section: History Of Intersectionality Within Social Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer

Hudson,

Myer,

Berney

2024

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Since then, intersectionality has been applied to a wide swath of fields including law (Crenshaw, 1991), sociology (Collins, 1991), literature (Anzaldúa, 1987), psychology (Hurtado, 1996), and human-computer interaction (Schlesinger et al, 2017). By the new millennium, the framework largely replaced patriarchy as an analytic tool in feminist scholarship (Patil, 2013), while spreading throughout progressive popular discourse and celebrity culture as a modifier to feminism and language for lived experience (Banet-Weiser, 2018;Flood, 2019).…”

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The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

Hammack,

Manago

2024

American Psychologist

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The 21st century has seen shifts in social and scientific understandings of gender and sexuality in the United States. From the legitimization of same-sex marriage to the heightened visibility of transgender identities, nonbinary gender, and forms of intimate diversity such as asexuality, kink, and polyamory, core cultural and scientific assumptions about gender and sexuality have been challenged. This article situates these changes in the historical context of 21st century social technologies, which challenge traditional sources of authority about information and provide enhanced opportunities for individuals to experience authenticity in gender and sexuality. We frame authenticity as a master cultural narrative in the United States characterized by feeling a heightened sense of self-authorship and alignment between inner experience and embodiment of gender and sexuality. Five narratives now circulate in the United States, four of which support sexual and gender diversity: (a) gender as self-constructed; (b) sexuality as plural, playful, flexible, and fluid; (c) sexuality and monogamy as cultural compulsions; and (d) intersectionality as central to the experience of sexuality and gender. A fifth narrative seeking to legitimize hierarchies (e.g., patriarchy) is hostile to sexual and gender diversity but remains anchored in a metanarrative of authenticity and has benefitted equally from the affordances of social technologies. This historical moment provides researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to more intentionally ground their work in lived experience, challenge normative thinking about sexuality and gender, practice affirmation, center the phenomenon of diversity over discrete identity categories in an ever-exclusionary acronym (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and more identities [LGBTQ+]), and embrace fluid and nonlinear narratives of social change.

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Being a Celebrity: Alienation, Integrity, and the Uncanny

Archer¹,

Robb²

2022

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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A central feature of being a celebrity is experiencing a divide between one's public image and private life. By appealing to the phenomenology of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, we analyze this experience as paradoxically involving both a disconnection and alienation from one's public persona and a sense of close connection with it. This ‘uncanny’ experience presents a psychological conflict for celebrities: they may have a public persona they feel alienated from and that is at the same time closely connected to them and shapes many of their personal interactions. We offer three ways in which a celebrity might approach this conflict: (i) eradicating the divide between their public and private selves, (ii) splitting or separating their private and public selves, or (iii) embracing the arising tension. We argue that it is only this third approach that successfully mitigates the negative effects of the alienation felt by many celebrities.

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Intersectionality and Celebrity Culture

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer

Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer

The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

Being a Celebrity: Alienation, Integrity, and the Uncanny

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